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  #21  
Old July 4th, 2008, 11:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Tony Jollans
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Default Where is the word count tool?

Old ones that don't always work were often on the old File menu (now
Office button menu), where properties moved to
Office Button=Prepare=Properties so (Alt, F, E, P) works to get you
to the 'basic' properties, but the old (Alt, F, I) will
now take you to the 'Office Center' (Word 2007 Options) dialog


You can re-instate the Word 2003 File Menu accelerator keys if you want. I
wrote some brief notes about how to do it:
http://www.wordarticles.com/Shorts/A...celerators.htm

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote
in message ...
Hi Digitig,

On the keyboard shortcuts you mentioned, you may find that many of the old
version ones still work g as do the new ones.

For example Alt, E, F will still bring up Edit=Find (as will Ctrl+F).
If you press Alt, then E, you should see a tooltip that
Word 2007 recognized that you are using an Office 2003 shortcut key
sequence

Old ones that don't always work were often on the old File menu (now
Office button menu), where properties moved to
Office Button=Prepare=Properties so (Alt, F, E, P) works to get you
to the 'basic' properties, but the old (Alt, F, I) will
now take you to the 'Office Center' (Word 2007 Options) dialog

You can, however, add your own keyboard shortcuts as well, at least in
Word g. For example to add a keyboard shortcut for the
Word 2003 like properties dialog you can use
Office Button=Word Options=Customize=Keyboard Shortcuts
(Alt, F, I, C)
and from the 'All commands' category, select the FileProperties choice.

You can right click on the Crop tool icon to add-it to the Quick access
toolbar, although it does appear in the
Picture Tools=Format ribbon with a double click of the picture after
inserting a caption. If you're handy with VBA (which
I'm not g, it can probably also be added to the right click menu for
pictures as well.

There are a number of different spreadsheets, by example tools and add-ins
available that you may find helpful.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx
http://officelabs.com/projects/searc...s/default.aspx


Some folks prefer to work with a minimzed ribbon (ctrl+F1 or double click
on a ribbon tab)

===============
"digitig" wrote in message
...
"Older Than You" wrote:

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?"


To be fair, I'm quite glad that Microsoft can't see everything I'm typing
in
my word processor. I do like /some/ degree of privacy!

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).


Well, I loathe the new UI with a vengeance, especially the way common hot
key sequences are really long (altEF replaced with altHFDF, and try
getting to custom document properties just using the keyboard!) whilst
rare
actions have really short sequences (altPH for hyphenation settings and
altPJ to set the columns -- both things that I do once and for all in
the
document template), and the way I keep having to switch between ribbon
tabs
when on previous version I could have left all the relevant toolbars open
for
the task I was performing (when I'm putting a series of figures drawn in a
different tool into a document, I hate the way the crop icon goes away
when I
add a caption -- I reckon it pretty much doubles the distance the mouse
has
to travel to do the job).

But for all that, when I had trouble with word count I came here and found
that the function I was used to was still available and still worked as it
should, so credit to Microsoft for leaving it in. And when I come here
with
what is effectively a bug report, what on earth do you expect /any/
responsible company to do other than ask for the steps to repeat the
behaviour?
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*



  #22  
Old July 14th, 2008, 02:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Bob Buckland ?:-\)
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Default Where is the word count tool?

Hi Tony,

Interesting. Word doesn't see these as keyboard shortcut custom assignments either (i.e. it doesn't list them from Office
Button=Print=Print
and selecting 'Key Assignments') and saves an 'attachedToolbars.bin' customization.xml part to Normal.dotm, even though the macro
was only in a specific document (and now the Office Button has a different keyboard shortcut in Word than its sister apps )

==========
You can re-instate the Word 2003 File Menu accelerator keys if you want. I
wrote some brief notes about how to do it:
http://www.wordarticles.com/Shorts/A...celerators.htm

--
Enjoy,
Tony
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*


  #23  
Old July 14th, 2008, 06:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Tony Jollans
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Default Where is the word count tool?

Hi Bob,

Word doesn't see these as keyboard shortcut custom assignments either
(i.e. it doesn't list them from Office
Button=Print=Print
and selecting 'Key Assignments')


Accelerators were never considered shortcuts in that sense, so that's
consistent with 2003.

and saves an 'attachedToolbars.bin' customization.xml part to Normal.dotm,
even though the macro
was only in a specific document


Without setting a CustomizationContext that is, again, consistent with
earlier versions.

and now the Office Button has a different keyboard shortcut in Word than
its sister apps


There's only one app worth using g. More seriously, you can either (a)
change other apps in the same way, or (b) customize "File" with a different
legacy accelerator (although you would have to remember to use it).

--
Enjoy,
Tony


  #24  
Old September 15th, 2008, 09:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Rich
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Default Where is the word count tool?

I agree with these comments. Why isn't there a simple way to translate word
2003 functions to word 2007?? Some one really missed a very basic step in the
design process.
Rich

"Joe" wrote:

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!

  #25  
Old September 15th, 2008, 10:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default Where is the word count tool?

Word Count is on the status bar by default.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"rich" wrote in message
...
I agree with these comments. Why isn't there a simple way to translate word
2003 functions to word 2007?? Some one really missed a very basic step in
the
design process.
Rich

"Joe" wrote:

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!




  #26  
Old November 25th, 2008, 03:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
dardar
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Default Where is the word count tool?

You have probably already found your answer to this, but just in case.........
click on the Review tab
look on the left section entitled Proofing
down the right side of the box you will see an icon ABC123 this is the
word count icon.
highlight the area in your document that you need a word count and then
click on the icon . A little dialog box should pop onto your screen with the
count for you.

to save yourself from searching out this tool each time, simply right click
on the icon and select "Add to Quick Access Toolbar" . You will then see the
icon appear in your toolbar immediately above your document


--
computerly challenged


"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!

  #27  
Old November 25th, 2008, 05:56 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Default Where is the word count tool?

It is not necessary to add the Word Count icon to the QAT since it is
already present (or potentially present) on the status bar. If you don't see
it there, right-click on the status bar and add it. The status bar will then
display the word count, and clicking on that will open the Word Count
dialog.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"dardar" wrote in message
...
You have probably already found your answer to this, but just in
case.........
click on the Review tab
look on the left section entitled Proofing
down the right side of the box you will see an icon ABC123 this is the
word count icon.
highlight the area in your document that you need a word count and then
click on the icon . A little dialog box should pop onto your screen with
the
count for you.

to save yourself from searching out this tool each time, simply right
click
on the icon and select "Add to Quick Access Toolbar" . You will then see
the
icon appear in your toolbar immediately above your document


--
computerly challenged


"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!



  #28  
Old December 4th, 2008, 03:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Frank.Appelgate
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Default Where is the word count tool?

Where do I contact MSFT? These blogs did not help me. I still can not find
the word counter for word 2007

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Note that the people answering questions here do not work for Microsoft. And
providing details is necessary, because, as you pointed out, no one here is
a mind-reader.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Older Than You" Older Than wrote in message
...
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*








  #29  
Old December 4th, 2008, 03:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Graham Mayor
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Default Where is the word count tool?

See Suzanne's replies in this thread

Right click the status bar at the bottom of the Word window and check 'Word
Count'. The Word count is displayed in the status bar.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Frank.Appelgate wrote:
Where do I contact MSFT? These blogs did not help me. I still can not
find the word counter for word 2007

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Note that the people answering questions here do not work for
Microsoft. And providing details is necessary, because, as you
pointed out, no one here is a mind-reader.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Older Than You" Older Than wrote in
message ...
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*



  #30  
Old February 7th, 2009, 09:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Chris W
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Default Where is the word count tool?

The most relevant answer to most everyone's question about finding commands
in Word '07 is simple:
1. Right-click on the "HOME" tab.
2. Select "CUSTOMIZE QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR"
3. In the new window under "Choose Commands From:" drop down menu, select
"ALL COMMANDS"
4.You will see a list of all commands. Scroll down to whatever command you
have been looking for and highlight it. Click "ADD" button.
5. The command button will now reside on the top toolbar in Word '07.

NOTE: not all commands that were available in '03 are directly accessible in
'07. That is why you have to go to the "Customize Quick Access Toolbar"
operation.

"Frank.Appelgate" wrote:

Where do I contact MSFT? These blogs did not help me. I still can not find
the word counter for word 2007

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Note that the people answering questions here do not work for Microsoft. And
providing details is necessary, because, as you pointed out, no one here is
a mind-reader.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Older Than You" Older Than wrote in message
...
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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