Word list

[ltlredwagon]

I have Word 2008 for Mac. Is it possible to take a Word document and arrange every word in the document in alphabetical order. So you end up with a long vertical list of words showing how many times each word was used, e.g.: a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, able, able, advertising, ball, ball, balls, be, be, be, be, be, belt, belt, etc. I know I COULD go through and put every word on a single line and then sort. Obviously not practical for a long document. Is there an easier way? I searched the site for a bit but didn't finding anything. Thanks.

[macropod]

Hi ltlredwagon,

I know I COULD go through and put every word on a single line and then sort. Obviously not practical for a long document.

Actually, that's quite easy. Use Find/Replace, where:
Find = space
Replace = ^p
Then convert to a single-column table and sort.

Since Word 2008 doesn't have macro support, a vba-based solution isn't possible.

[ltlredwagon]

Macro, that's brilliantly simple. Thanks so much.