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I have a passage of text and would like to know (using word, or any other MS Office program) how I can get it to calculate how many times each word is used and display it in an alphabetical list?

i.e.

"a cat sat on a mat with another cat"

a - 2
another - 1
cat - 2
mat - 1
on - 1
sat -1
with - 1

any ideas if this is possible?

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The following macro generates a list of all words used in the active document, and outputs them alphabetically sorted, with frequency of occurrence in a table at the end of that document, starting on a new page. The page Nos on which the words occur may also be included in the output. The macro only lists words in the MainTextStory, not headers/footers/ footnotes/endnotes etc. It also has provision for an exclusion list, so that various words and phrases can be excluded. The exclusions list (defined by the words & phrases in the StrExcl string variable) lists the words and phrases to be omitted from the concordance. Any phrases should be listed in the exclusions list before any of the single-word exclusions (so that conflicts don’t occur).
Code:
Sub ConcordanceBuilder()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim StrIn As String, StrOut As String, StrTmp As String, StrExcl As String
Dim i As Long, j As Long, k As Long, l As Long, Rng As Range, RngTmp As Range, Pgs As Long
'Define the exlusions list
StrExcl = "-,a,am,an,and,are,as,at,b,be,but,by,c,can,cf,cm,d,did,do,does,e,eg," & _
          "e.g,en,eq,etc,f,for,g,get,go,got,h,has,have,he,he's,her,her's" & _
          "him,his,how,i,ie,i.e,if,i'm,in,into,is,it,its,j,k,l,m,me,mi,mm,my," & _
          "n,na,nb,no,not,o,of,off,ok,on,one,or,our,out,p,q,r,re,s,she,she's,so," & _
          "t,that,the,their,them,they,they're,this,those,they're,to,u,v,via," & _
          "vs,w,was,we,we're,were,who,will,with,would,x,y,yd,you,your,your's,z"
With ActiveDocument
  'Get the document's text
  StrIn = .Content.Text
  'Strip out unwanted characters. Amongst others, hyphens and formatted single quotes are retained at this stage
  For i = 1 To 255
    Select Case i
      Case 1 To 31, 33 To 44, 46 To 64, 91 To 96, 123 To 144, 147 To 191, 247
        While InStr(StrIn, Chr(i)) > 0
          StrIn = Replace(StrIn, Chr(i), " ")
       Wend
    End Select
  Next
  DoEvents
  'Delete any periods or commas at the end of a word.
  StrIn = Replace(Replace(Replace(Replace(StrIn, Chr(44) & Chr(32), " "), Chr(44) & vbCr, " "), Chr(46) & Chr(32), " "), Chr(46) & vbCr, " ")
  'Convert smart single quotes to plain single quotes & delete any at the start/end of a word
  StrIn = Replace(Replace(Replace(Replace(StrIn, Chr(145), "'"), Chr(146), "'"), "' ", " "), " '", " ")
  'Convert to lowercase
  StrIn = " " & LCase(Trim(StrIn)) & " "
  'Process the exclusions list
  For i = 0 To UBound(Split(StrExcl, ","))
    While InStr(StrIn, " " & Split(StrExcl, ",")(i) & " ") > 0
      StrIn = Replace(StrIn, " " & Split(StrExcl, ",")(i) & " ", " ")
    Wend
  Next
  DoEvents
  'Clean up any duplicate spaces
  While InStr(StrIn, "  ") > 0
    StrIn = Replace(StrIn, "  ", " ")
  Wend
  StrIn = " " & Trim(StrIn) & " "
  j = UBound(Split(StrIn, " "))
  l = j
  For i = 1 To j
    'Find how many occurences of each word there are in the document
    StrTmp = Split(StrIn, " ")(1)
    While InStr(StrIn, " " & StrTmp & " ") > 0
      StrIn = Replace(StrIn, " " & StrTmp & " ", " ")
    Wend
    'Calculate the number of words replaced
    k = l - UBound(Split(StrIn, " "))
    'Update the output string
    StrOut = StrOut & StrTmp & vbTab & k & vbCr
    l = UBound(Split(StrIn, " "))
    If l = 1 Then Exit For
    DoEvents
  Next
  StrIn = StrOut
  StrOut = ""
  Pgs = MsgBox("Get Page Refs? This may take a while.", vbYesNo)
  If Pgs = vbYes Then
    For i = 0 To UBound(Split(StrIn, vbCr)) - 1
      StrTmp = ""
      With .Range
        With .Find
          .ClearFormatting
          .Text = Split(Split(StrIn, vbCr)(i), vbTab)(0)
          .Replacement.Text = ""
          .Forward = True
          .Wrap = wdFindStop
          .Format = False
          .MatchCase = False
          .MatchWholeWord = True
          .MatchWildcards = False
          .MatchSoundsLike = False
          .MatchAllWordForms = False
          .Execute
        End With
        Do While .Find.Found
          StrTmp = StrTmp & " " & .Information(wdActiveEndPageNumber)
          Set RngTmp = .Duplicate
          Set RngTmp = RngTmp.GoTo(What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="\page")
          .Start = RngTmp.End
          .Find.Execute
        Loop
      End With
      StrTmp = Replace(Trim(StrTmp), " ", ",")
      StrOut = StrOut & Split(StrIn, vbCr)(i) & vbTab & StrTmp & vbCr
      DoEvents
    Next
  Else
    StrOut = StrIn
  End If
  StrOut = "Word" & vbTab & "Count" & vbTab & "Page" & vbCr & StrOut
  'Create the concordance table on a new last page
  Set Rng = .Range.Characters.Last
  With Rng
    .Text = vbCr & Chr(12) & vbCr & StrOut
    .Start = .Start + 3
    .ConvertToTable Separator:=vbTab, Numcolumns:=3
    With .Tables(1)
      .Sort Excludeheader:=True, FieldNumber:=1, SortFieldType:=wdSortFieldAlphanumeric, _
        SortOrder:=wdSortOrderAscending, CaseSensitive:=False
      If Pgs = vbNo Then .Columns(3).Delete
      .Rows(1).Range.Font.Bold = True
      .Rows(1).HeadingFormat = True
    End With
  End With
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
The above code strips out trailing apostrophes (which are difficult to differentiate from enclosing single quotes), with the result that some possessive word forms in the table might look a bit odd or be treated as simple plurals, but that's a small price to pay.

For PC macro installation & usage instructions, see: Installing Macros
For Mac macro installation & usage instructions, see: Word:mac - Install a Macro
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