How do I count words in text boxes?

[Guest]

When counting words (or characters) in a document, how do I include the text
inside text boxes that happen to be part of the document? I find that the
text within these boxes go uncounted.

Thank you very much.

 

[Guest]

If you highlight (select) the text, then hit word count it works

 

[KBS]

In the Review ribbon under word count, which is the box to the right of the
word "translate" there's an option to check a box to count text boxes,
headers, footers, etc.

What I'm trying to figure out is how to make that the default for every
document so I don't have to check it for every document.