Word Count Excluding bracketed words

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Hi - is it possible for word count to exclude all words in brackets?
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Not directly -- you have to do it in two steps.

Make a copy of the document using the Save As command. In the copy,
delete all the words that are bracketed, by using a wildcard
replacement of an expression like

\([A-Za-z ]@\)

with nothing as described at
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm (but since different
people use "bracket" to mean different characters, you may have to
change the expression to make it work for yourself).

Do a word count on the remaining text of the copy document, which you
can then discard.
 
Hi jlk,

It is not possible using word inbuilt function. But we can writ
macros.

Thanks,
Senthil.
 
You could also use a Replace operation to just format the bracketed words as
Hidden. When Hidden text is not displayed, it is also not counted.

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Words into Type
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Jay Freedman said:
Hi - is it possible for word count to exclude all words in brackets?
Click to expand...

Not directly -- you have to do it in two steps.

Make a copy of the document using the Save As command. In the copy,
delete all the words that are bracketed, by using a wildcard
replacement of an expression like

\([A-Za-z ]@\)

with nothing as described at
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm (but since different
people use "bracket" to mean different characters, you may have to
change the expression to make it work for yourself).

Do a word count on the remaining text of the copy document, which you
can then discard.


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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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This can be done with Hidden font.

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