Hey there,

I am currently writing an essay and to make it easier I would like to make a template where I have an automated text field counting my words. I have found the right one (numwords) but how do I make it not counting my title page?

Cheers
Ingmar

Hey

don't any of you have experience with MS word fields? Begging for help! Please!

Cheers

Ingmar

I have relatively little experience, but here's something to try, noting the copy from Word help on fields, below.

- (minus sign) This format item adds a minus sign to a negative result or adds a space if the result is positive or 0 (zero). For example,
{ = 10 - 90 \# -## } displays -80.

Try this: select everything on your title page and check the status bar at the bottom of your doc for the number of words. (If it's not showing, right-click the bar and select Word count.) Then, simply insert this number after a minus sign in your Numwords field.

Does this solve your problem?

I didn't figure it out; my previous answer, as you may have found, is wrong. I found this on another forum, posted by Macropod:

Press Ctrl+F9 (the F9 key, that is) twice, which inserts a blank field containing another blank field. After the first curly bracket and space, you'll insert an equal sign. Then the next curly bracket will follow with its space, then type NUMWORDS. The existing space and bracket follow. Then type the number of words on your title page (counting them as I suggested above), which will be followed by the existing space and final curly bracket, like this:

{ ={ NUMWORDS }-4 }

Thanks, Macropod! After realizing that my solution didn't work, no matter how I arranged the -#, and spending nearly an hour trying to find it clearly presented in Help or on the web, I found your reply.