You might want to have a look at
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Table_Cell_Data.htm. If this macro doesn't do what
you need, perhaps Greg could enhance it so that it would. I would think that
any macro that could put information in the status bar could also write it
to a document property or variable that could be picked up in the doc with a
DocProperty or DocVariable field.

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"kaz" wrote in message
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I have a field, outside of the table, that needs to display the count
of the number of items in the table (excluding the header row).