Word question

[LoganSaj]

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but ...

Is there a way to have a document word count appear at the top (not in header) of a Word 2007/2003 document?

 

[Smitty]

Check out the Selection.Words Property in the VB helpfile.

HTH,

 

[Marbles]

Insert Field, (Category: Document Information), might work.

 

[Macropod]

Hi LoganSaj,

Select your insertion point, then:
. press Ctrl-F9 twice, to create a pair of nested field braces - they'll look like '{ { } }'
. fill in/around the field braces so that you end up with '{={NUMWORDS}-1}'
. select the field and press F9 twice.

In theory, a NUMWORDS field alone (ie {NUMWORDS}) should suffice but what happens in practice is that, after the first update, the NUMWORDS field includes itself in the count.

Note: The count returned by a NUMWORDS field will not include page headers, page footers, footnotes or endnotes, but it will the include footnote & endnote reference numbers. Hidden text is only counted if your print options are set to print hidden text.

 

[LoganSaj]

Hi LoganSaj,

Select your insertion point, then:
. press Ctrl-F9 twice, to create a pair of nested field braces - they'll look like '{ { } }'
. fill in/around the field braces so that you end up with '{={NUMWORDS}-1}'
. select the field and press F9 twice.

Great! That works. Now, is there a way to format the number result with commas (eg., 43,330), or to round to the nearest 100 for results over 1000?

 

[Norie]

For the commas try adding a switch to the field.

{ NUMWORDS \# #,###,### }

 

[Macropod]

Hi folks,

All you need for the thousands separator is:
{={NUMWORDS}-1 \# ,0}
Having Norie's \# #,###,### simply pads out the space before the number if it's less than 1,000,000

 

[LoganSaj]

Found the answer on another site.

FYI: http://www.techtalkz.com/microsoft-office-word/429168-cant-get-numwords-working-formula-field.html

 

[Macropod]

Hi LoganSaj,

The formula in that post rounds to the nearest 1,000 and doesn't concern itself with whether the number is greater than 1,000, as you indicated was the alternative result:

is there a way to format the number result with commas (eg., 43,330), or to round to the nearest 100 for results over 1000?

For that you need something considerably more sophisticated:
{=IF({NUMWORDS}>999,ROUND({NUMWORDS}-1,-2),{NUMWORDS}-1) \# ,0}

 

[Norie]

LoganSaj

Would you care to actually post the solution you found here?