tabulating word data in Word

[Guest]

Hi, I didn't know if this is the right place for this, but I wanted to know
if there's a way to mark certain words in a word file and be able to export
just those words to Excel? Or something like that.

Basically here's the story: I have a document in which I am trying to
catalog how many times a person says certain words like "bird," for example.
Is there a way to tag each occurance of the word "bird" and have Word/Excel
automatically count it for me, and then put that number in a graph? Or is
there a way to tag a number of different words?

If it's possible, it would save me a lot of time, but I couldn't figure out
how to do this. Thanks very very much!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you just want to count the occurrences of a specific word, you can do
this with Word's Replace dialog. Type the word into the "Find what" box. In
the "Replace with" box, type ^&. This will replace the found text with
itself. Replace All. When the operation is complete, Word will tell you how
many "replacements" were performed.

You can also use Find to "Highlight all items found." While they're
highlighted, you can copy them, then paste into Excel.

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

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