Such a macro is not that complex. The following will ask you for the number
of the word that you want to go to and then take you to it:

Dim wordnum As Long
wordnum = InputBox("Enter the number of the word to which you want to go",
"Go to Word Number", 1)
ActiveDocument.Words(wordnum).Select


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Bert Coules" wrote in message
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Anne Troy wrote:

Without using VBA (and I think some tough-to-write VBA at that), the only
method I'm aware of is Ctrl+Right arrow.

Anne, thanks for the reply. It seems incredible: I can GoTo a specified
page, line, section, field, equation and all the rest of it, but not a
particularly-numbered word. For a programme with such amazing
capabilities, Word certainly has some astonishing limitations.

Perhaps it would be possible to write a macro that executes "go to next
word" a specific number of times (asking for a user-input for the exact
number)? But I have no experience with macros, alas, and wouldn't know
where to start.

Bert
www.bertcoules.co.uk