Hi All,
I'm not sure where I am going wrong with this, I am trying to write a field formula which will display the word count for a document minus a particular number (to display the word count for an assignment not including the cover sheet)
judging from the microsoft support site i should just be able to put in the formula box:
{={NUMWORDS}-1204}
and that should display the word count less 1204.

Am I missing something glaringly obvious or is this something that word can't do?



Cheers in advance

Hi hunter2193,

The field brace pairs (ie '{ }') for your formula are created in the the document via Ctrl-F9 (Cmd-F9 on a Mac) - you can't input them via the fields input screen, type them or copy & paste them from a web site.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I have tried =NUMWORDS-1204, but that returns an error about an undefined bookmark, and ={NUMWORDS}-1204 which returns a syntax error.
I'm sure there must be something really obvious that i am missing, but i am new to field codes

It seems you're not paying attention to what I wrote in my previous post!

Forget the field dialogs. Go to wherever you want the calculation to appear and press Ctrl-F9 twice, so that you get { { } }. Fill in the rest so it looks like your first post, then press F9.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]