Preventing word count from counting certain sections

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When I write an essay for uni, I like to have my reference list/bibliography
at the end of the document so i can easily refer to it for links to site etc.
However, when I'm given a word limit, eg.3000 words, this list counts
towards that limit so I'm not sure of exactly how much I've done. Does
anyone know of a way of preventing certain sections from being counted? I
know I can have my references in another document or just select the parts I
want to count e.g. without bibliography, and then do a word count, but it
would be really useful if there was an option that would just let me say 'not
count these in word count' etc.
 
Hi =?Utf-8?B?U2NvdHQ=?=,

There's nothing like this built into Word. You could ask in the
word.vba.beginners newsgroup if someone could help you develop a macro that
would do this. You would need to provide
- the version of Word
- exactly how the not-to-count region can be distinguished from the to-count
region (separate section, bookmarks would be possibilities)
When I write an essay for uni, I like to have my reference list/bibliography
at the end of the document so i can easily refer to it for links to site etc.
However, when I'm given a word limit, eg.3000 words, this list counts
towards that limit so I'm not sure of exactly how much I've done. Does
anyone know of a way of preventing certain sections from being counted? I
know I can have my references in another document or just select the parts I
want to count e.g. without bibliography, and then do a word count, but it
would be really useful if there was an option that would just let me say 'not
count these in word count' etc.
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Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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