Count highlighted words

[Opinicus]

Using Word 2003 (Office XP) with SP3.

I have a document from a customer in which many sections of text are
highlighted. (Yellow.) I can count *all* of the words in the document of
course but is it possible to count just the highlighted ones?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you first select all the highlighted text, you can count the words in the
selection. To select the text, open the Find (not Replace) dialog, click
More, select Format | Highlight, and check the box for "Highlight all items
found" (where "highlight" actually means "select"). When Word has found and
selected all the highlighted text, do Tools | Word Count.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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