WordCount option to exclude text in parentheses re:Harvard Refere.

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Major Universities use the Harvard Referencing System, used in essays,
journals and the like. Referenced work is enlcosed in parentheses ( ... ) and
does not count towards the total word count. However, the word count function
includes this and leads to an incorrect total for a large number of users in
Academia.

Can anyone help please?

Regards

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There's no built-in feature to accomplish this, but a possible workaround
would be to use Find and Replace to apply to the parenthetical references a
character style (identical to the Default Paragraph Font) that could, at
need, be formatted as Hidden. When Hidden text is not displayed, it will not
be counted.

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

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[mvanle]

This can be done with Hidden font.

A VBA tool derived from this technique is available here: ezcite.sourceforge.net