thanks for your reply. Either I didn't understand your reply, or my question was not clear enough.

The count property defines that the selected text 'moves' by one word to the right, once I make use of the keyboard shortcut. This is fine.

The problem is that once I triggered it, the previously selected text is no longer selected and hence can't be 'moved' when I trigger the command for a second time. I have to re-select the words.

I read the help file and I can't see how the count property relates to the selection of the words which I want to move. Am I missing something obvious?