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!

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!

Live word count is on the status bar.

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

"Joe" <Joe RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BD18A851-C26B-4A19-B29F-1E4190703071@microsoft.com...
> 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!
>

"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.

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.

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<<"digitig" <digitig.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ADC8A494-01E4-43FA-8E7C-1E356D52E1F6@microsoft.com...
"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*

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" <digitig.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:ADC8A494-01E4-43FA-8E7C-1E356D52E1F6@microsoft.com...
> "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*
>
>
>