Hi all,
I'm doing a mathematics exploration that is somewhat like an essay.
The Essay has a word limit but numbers and symbols (mathematical stuff) isn't included in this limit.
Is there any way that I can count how many words are in my document without counting numbers/symbols??

Online service or script macro?? I'm quite new.



I'm using Microsoft Word 2010.

Thanks

Hi Student,

You could use a wildcard Find/Replace to temporarily delete all the numbers etc. For example:
Find = <[0-9,.]{1,}>
Replace = nothing
will delete all numbers, including those with thousands & decimal separators (though not numbers in alpha-numeric strings). Take a word count, then Undo.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]