![]() ![]() For example the text (including the quotation marks): "Jack and Jill went up the hill." consists of seven strings of text separated by six "white spaces." For this text, Word Count returns "Words: 7" These include spaces, tabs, paragraphs, sections, and yes (while not actually white) En and Em dashes. White space for the purpose of counting is anything in the text that is intended to separate words. Generally, however, "Word Count" counts any text separated by any How does "Word Count" work? I don't know for sure as the process is not exposed to VBA novices. ![]() In working with version 2.0, I started toying with the idea of trying to mimic how Word's built-in "Word Count" feature worked into my process. I have spent a lot of time trying to fix individual issues for users, only to discover that fixing one thing would often break two or three other things. Over the years and with feedback from users, I realized that Doug's work and mine came up a bit short in complex documents containing anything more that just simple text. Word MVP Doug Robbins had shared some code with me for counting words in a document and I simply added a userform to provide a user interface. ![]() The original form of the add-in was one of the first complete projects I published in this website. Developer's Notes, Tips and General Statement of Fallibility See: How to Create an Index Table Like a Pro with Microsoft Word. Note: The Index AutoMark document can be edited then saved and used to automatically index words when you need to create an index in Word. The add-in user interface (UI) with first use default options is shown if the following illustrations: Compatibility with the 64-bit version of Office.Processing content controls and form fields (including checkboxes).Option to output results to a suitable Index AutoMark document file.Ability to define and index abbreviations as abbreviations (e.g., Mr., Mrs.Option to process and include words used in list paragraph numbering (e.g., Section 1.1, Appendix I, etc.).Option to ignore case in indexing and counting (i.e., words like APPLE, Apple and apple are considered the same word and would index as "apple" with a count of 3).Option to process and include words in the footnotes, endnotes, and text boxes.This add-in has been significantly debugged, redesigned and upgrade with the release of version 2.0. Note: The add-in (by design) does not count words contained in headers, footers, and the text frame of shapes anchored in headers or footers. all words except user defined excluded words, or.All words in the document main, footnote, endnotes, and text box text ranges.The add-in provides user interface via a userform for all processing and output options. This Microsoft Word Tips & Microsoft Word Help page provides "Word Usage & Frequency" Word template add-in to facilitate calculating and reporting word usage and frequency in a document. ![]()
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