MS Word Help » word count http://www.mswordhelp.com Tips and tricks for Microsoft Word Users Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:30:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Number Of Occurrences Of A Particular Word http://www.mswordhelp.com/number-of-occurrences-of-a-particular-word/ http://www.mswordhelp.com/number-of-occurrences-of-a-particular-word/#comments Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:10:47 +0000 admin http://www.mswordhelp.com/?p=129 As you type, Microsoft Word keeps track of the current word count in your document. You can see the word count in the Status Bar, if you have selected to display it there. To add or remove word count from the Status Bar, right click on the Status Bar and either check or uncheck the box next to Word Count.

Word Count In Word

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This word count is the total number of words in the entire document.

But you can get a word count for just a particular section of text, too. Simply select your text and the word count number will update to give you the total number of words in the selection. The format is like this:


number of words in the selection / number of words in the document

Words In Selection

You can also make multiple selections by holding down the ctrl key when making further selections. Again, the word count will update to display the total number of words in the selections.

Count Of A Specific Word

To count the number of occurrences of a specific word in your document, you have to get sneaky. Press ctrl-F to open up the navigation pane and then type the word or phrase you want to count. Not only will Word find all occurrences of the word or phrase, it will diaply the count, too.

Specific Word Count In Word

]]> http://www.mswordhelp.com/number-of-occurrences-of-a-particular-word/feed/ 0 How To Convert Table To Text In Microsoft Word 2007 http://www.mswordhelp.com/how-to-convert-table-to-text-in-microsoft-word-2007/ http://www.mswordhelp.com/how-to-convert-table-to-text-in-microsoft-word-2007/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:22:00 +0000 admin http://www.mswordhelp.com/?p=10 Word 2007 Task

Imagine that we have a table full of text and that we want to keep the text but get rid of the table. We could just copy the text out of the table and paste it into a program like notepad, before copying it back to our document once the table has been deleted. The problem with doing this, however, is that we will lose any formatting that has been applied to the text. If the document was created by someone else, who knows what weird formatting they applied!

Fortunately for us, there happens to be a magic solution in Microsoft Word that we can use.

Select the table in your document and you should see the Table Tools contextual tab appear with the Design and Layout tabs within.

Table Tools Tab

You can select the table simply by placing the cursor inside one of the cells.

Now click to the Layout tab within the Table Tools tab and then click on the Convert to Text button.

Convert To Text

The Convert Table to Text window will display, giving us choices about how we want to separate the text in each cell. The best choice is often Paragraph marks, as shown in the image below, but you will have to decide what’s best for your unique situation.

Convert Table To Text

Taking the Paragraph marks option will display each table cell’s text as a new paragraph.

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