Following the instructions that I found, I wanted to get an approximate word count (rounded to 100), so I put in the suggested formula,

but when I toggle the field codes, I get



I am using Office 365.

Various attempts including the very detailed document on expressions in Word (Word Field Maths V1_5.doc) did not clarify this problem.


So I went back and just replaced the field. I selected the format #,##0, as a number, and got
and got

Code:

Approximately 3107 words

instead of the expected

Code:

Approximately 3,107 words

try this
{=Round({Numwords},-2) \# "#,##0"}

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Same syntax error message

It works on my M365 machine.

Did you insert both sets of the {parentheses} by using Ctrl-F9?

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

If I add {} around the body,

Code:

Approximately {

or

Code:

Approximately {

I get
Here is exactly what I see when I toggle field codes:

Code:

Approximately {

Please show meexactly what I should see in my file.

(For reasons I do not understand, a gratuitous end-CODE, start-CODE pair are added each time I save this, right after the open brace, which results in really stupid-looking output. I've tried three times to fix it, and the bugs in the editor seem to be permanent)

see attached doc

Attached Files

Wordcount rounding.docx (12.9 KB, 3 views)

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Look at the field in Andrew's document. You cannot simply type the { } field delimiters; Word must put them in, in pairs.

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