Hi there,
Loads of posts on here of word counts but I can't get any of them to
work for some reason.. think It might be because im running office on a
mac.. (by the way, apologies for this post - it might "help" if my
office "help" worked to show me the VBA help page - It just loops round
between "Visual Basic Editor Reference Help" and "Visual Basic Help"
when you click on a link.. grr.. anyway side issue..)

What I want to do is be a bit of smart arse. My college say that we can
exclude citations from the word count. Citations are always in Brackets
and almost always end in a 4 digit year (Lets just say they always do
for this..) so

asdasda (adasad adsad ads 2004) might be a citation or (adsa 2002)

Now my knowledge of VB goes back to some archaic ASP form from years
ago - and I have no idea of where to start with this.. Any pointers
much appreciated..

thanks - and apologies for the possible double posting - Just cant find
anything that does this job

will

If you want to do this via VBA, you should ask on a newsgroup with VBA or
Programming in the name.

If you are on a Mac, you should probably ask on the Mac-specific newsgroup
as wildcards are a bit different on the Mac.

Either way, you need to rewrite your question so that it is clear what you
want to do, and what you already tried that didn't work. And you need to
state your version.

See here for Google/Entourage gateway to Mac-specific ngs:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups


On 5/22/05 2:53 PM, " wrote:

Hi there,
Loads of posts on here of word counts but I can't get any of them to
work for some reason.. think It might be because im running office on a
mac.. (by the way, apologies for this post - it might "help" if my
office "help" worked to show me the VBA help page - It just loops round
between "Visual Basic Editor Reference Help" and "Visual Basic Help"
when you click on a link.. grr.. anyway side issue..)

What I want to do is be a bit of smart arse. My college say that we can
exclude citations from the word count. Citations are always in Brackets
and almost always end in a 4 digit year (Lets just say they always do
for this..) so

asdasda (adasad adsad ads 2004) might be a citation or (adsa 2002)

Now my knowledge of VB goes back to some archaic ASP form from years
ago - and I have no idea of where to start with this.. Any pointers
much appreciated..

thanks - and apologies for the possible double posting - Just cant find
anything that does this job

will


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Sorry, that was a bad request wasnt it.
Ok its basically the same as this thread :
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...e2629bdea50e26

below is my current code. It's all fine - it will get everything that
has (*) but what I really want is (* nnnn) where n= 4 digits. I cant
work out how I should be writing the Find.Text = "\(*
0-90-90-90-90-9\)" (thats my stab at it but guess what - it doesnt
work)

All works fine on the mac in the end - my fault.. it was copying and
pasting from safari with gremlins causing word to throw a fit


Sub countw()

ActiveWindow.View.ShowHiddenText = False
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "\(*\)"
.Replacement.Text = "^&"
.Replacement.Font.Hidden = True
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchWildcards = True
End With
Selection.Find.Execute replace:=wdReplaceAll
Selection.WholeStory
MsgBox "There are " & Selection.Words.Count & " words."
ActiveWindow.View.ShowHiddenText = True
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "*"
.Font.Hidden = True
.Replacement.Text = "^&"
.Replacement.Font.Hidden = False
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchWildcards = True
End With
Selection.Find.Execute replace:=wdReplaceAll
Selection.WholeStory
MsgBox "There are " & Selection.Words.Count & " words."
ActiveWindow.View.ShowHiddenText = False
End Sub