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November 3rd, 2007, 10:05 PM
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Where is the word count tool?
Can someone please help! Where is the word count function in Word 2007?
There's no tool menu like there used to be. I need this desperately!! Thanks! 
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November 3rd, 2007, 10:39 PM
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Where is the word count tool?
You can add it to your status bar.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "abbyvfb" wrote in message ... Can someone please help! Where is the word count function in Word 2007? There's no tool menu like there used to be. I need this desperately!! Thanks!
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November 4th, 2007, 03:59 AM
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Where is the word count tool?
Hi,
You'll find the Word Count function under the "Review" tab (under "Set Language"). I hope it helps, Cheers, Thierry Fontenelle [MSFT] "abbyvfb" wrote: Can someone please help! Where is the word count function in Word 2007? There's no tool menu like there used to be. I need this desperately!! Thanks!
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May 8th, 2008, 10:33 PM
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Where is the word count tool?
This version is the worst!!! It took me way too long to find this simple
function: Click on "Review" tab. In left box (spelling and grammar) next to "Translate" is a little box - 123. That's the word count button. MS software is such a scam. Why do they make it so difficult? Because they can. cheers Joe in Durango, CO "abbyvfb" wrote: Can someone please help! Where is the word count function in Word 2007? There's no tool menu like there used to be. I need this desperately!! Thanks!
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#5
May 8th, 2008, 10:55 PM
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Where is the word count tool?
Live word count is on the status bar.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Joe" wrote in message ... This version is the worst!!! It took me way too long to find this simple function: Click on "Review" tab. In left box (spelling and grammar) next to "Translate" is a little box - 123. That's the word count button. MS software is such a scam. Why do they make it so difficult? Because they can. cheers Joe in Durango, CO "abbyvfb" wrote: Can someone please help! Where is the word count function in Word 2007? There's no tool menu like there used to be. I need this desperately!! Thanks!
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June 29th, 2008, 11:29 PM
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Where is the word count tool?
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Live word count is on the status bar. But only sometimes updates. Specifically, if you select part of a text the live word count /should/ show the number of words in the selected portion before the number of words in the whole text. Sometimes it does, and that's great. Sometimes it doesn't, which sucks. In my latest college assignment there are blocks of plain text for which, if I select them, the live word count will show the word count for the selection. There there are other blocks of plain text for which, if I select them, the live word count will continue to display only the total for the document and I have to go to the word count button on the review tab to get the count. So I'm afraid I'm at least partly with "Joe in Durango, CO". Word count in the status bar would be a great feature if it worked consistently. It doesn't, so it's a real nuisance that the version that /does/ work is so hard to find.
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June 30th, 2008, 02:30 AM
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Where is the word count tool?
Hi Digitig,
Could you provide some steps to reproduce the behavior? Is this typed text, or text pasted from a non-Word document pasted in? What font are you using and what view are you working in. Generally, the type of behavior you mentioned can occur if the font is a symbol font (even if the 'symbols' look 'letterlike') as Word then doesn't see 'words' just characters, but clicking on the Wordcount item on the Word 2007 status bar at the bottom of the screen should bring up the count dialog and a character count that does 'see' these characters but the Word count may not appear correctly. ============ "digitig" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Live word count is on the status bar. But only sometimes updates. Specifically, if you select part of a text the live word count /should/ show the number of words in the selected portion before the number of words in the whole text. Sometimes it does, and that's great. Sometimes it doesn't, which sucks. In my latest college assignment there are blocks of plain text for which, if I select them, the live word count will show the word count for the selection. There there are other blocks of plain text for which, if I select them, the live word count will continue to display only the total for the document and I have to go to the word count button on the review tab to get the count. So I'm afraid I'm at least partly with "Joe in Durango, CO". Word count in the status bar would be a great feature if it worked consistently. It doesn't, so it's a real nuisance that the version that /does/ work is so hard to find. -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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June 30th, 2008, 10:30 AM
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Where is the word count tool?
Oh great, I guess we are supposed to be mind-readers and just know all this.
"Could you provide some steps to reproduce the behavior?" Isn't MS supposed to be telling US where these behaviors are? Didn't someone test this before releasing it? Why to users have to point out the problems? But I guess if there is no regard for the amount of lost productivity caused by someone in MS not having anything better to do than completely change the UI, there certainly is no interest in telling customers how the new UI actually works (when it does). === "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Hi Digitig, Could you provide some steps to reproduce the behavior? Is this typed text, or text pasted from a non-Word document pasted in? What font are you using and what view are you working in. Generally, the type of behavior you mentioned can occur if the font is a symbol font (even if the 'symbols' look 'letterlike') as Word then doesn't see 'words' just characters, but clicking on the Wordcount item on the Word 2007 status bar at the bottom of the screen should bring up the count dialog and a character count that does 'see' these characters but the Word count may not appear correctly. ============ "digitig" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Live word count is on the status bar. But only sometimes updates. Specifically, if you select part of a text the live word count /should/ show the number of words in the selected portion before the number of words in the whole text. Sometimes it does, and that's great. Sometimes it doesn't, which sucks. In my latest college assignment there are blocks of plain text for which, if I select them, the live word count will show the word count for the selection. There there are other blocks of plain text for which, if I select them, the live word count will continue to display only the total for the document and I have to go to the word count button on the review tab to get the count. So I'm afraid I'm at least partly with "Joe in Durango, CO". Word count in the status bar would be a great feature if it worked consistently. It doesn't, so it's a real nuisance that the version that /does/ work is so hard to find. -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
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June 30th, 2008, 11:23 AM
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Where is the word count tool?
"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:
Hi Digitig, Could you provide some steps to reproduce the behavior? Unfortunately no, I've not found a pattern to it yet. Mind you, I've only just noticed it (it's the first time I've needed word count since moving to Office 2007) so I'll keep a look out to see if I can make it reproducible. Is this typed text, or text pasted from a non-Word document pasted in? This is text I have typed in. It's a college assignment in which I need to do 1000 words for the first part and 300 for each of the second and third parts. The partial counts were showing fine for the parts 1 and 2, not at all for part 3. I kept typing and selecting, and after a bit more typing and selecting the word count started appearing as it should (now I just need to get my word count down by about 20%!). What font are you using and what view are you working in. Calibri, print layout.
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June 30th, 2008, 11:25 AM
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