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I mistyped the message as I was thinking of my own systems. I meant
the word count they have in the labs for a class I"m taking for a
better college degree at night school using Word 2007 and I wanted to
display such a thing in Word 2003 and/or Word 97 at home.

You answered my misphrased question concisely, that it didn't exist
before Word 2007.

Sorry, I wasn't thinking clearly as it was a last-minute thing I
posted before going to bed and I didn't proof it like I should have. I
feel like an AOLer newbie rather than a semi-experienced user. I only
say semi because while I've been using Word and Office Writer since
1998, I rarely use many advanced features and almost never any unique
features. Just what was required to get my associates and bachelor's
degree in the early 2000s, and an automatic word count feature would
have been handy instead of having to modify normal.dot to put the
properties button on the toolbar and keep hitting it every couple
paragraphs or even sentences.