How to count the most common words used in word documents

[colincurious]

I would like to be able to count the words that are most used in
documents. Please advise how I can do this?

So you can understand why I want to do this .... I plan to write
minutes with a digital pen that converts handwriting to digital format
using OCR. I will then cut and paste this into Word.

I want to abbreviate the most common words from previous committee
meetings and put these into autocorrect in word.

For example, if I then wrote during the meeting:

Th cmte wlcmd th pstv fdbk rcvd.

This could be converted to the correct full length words and would then
read as:

The committee welcomed the positive feedback received.

The latter stuff is simply to put into context what I am trying to do.

Cheers!

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Colin,

Doug Robbins posted a macro for this. It's available at
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.word.vba.general/msg/244b0e7e3b956105?hl=en.
To use it, see the instructions at
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

When you copy from Doug's post and paste into the macro editor, you'll have
to fix up a number of lines that were broken by the posting process --
wherever you see a line in the macro editor in red type, delete the carriage
return at the end of the line to combine it with the broken-off part on the
next line.