Word index at current cursor location

[Ashish Sharma]

Hi
I need to get the word index where the cursor is currently positioned

for example
if i have 3-7 sentence in my document

this is line one
cursor is at XXX word
this is line three and cursor is at XXX in above line

how shd i get
cursor location is at sentenc 2 and word 4

Regards

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Hi
I need to get the word index where the cursor is currently positioned

for example
if i have 3-7 sentence in my document

this is line one
cursor is at XXX word
this is line three and cursor is at XXX in above line

how shd i get
cursor location is at sentenc 2 and word 4

Use the Word Count Toolbar.

Tools > Word Count... > Show Toolbar

Place your cursor where you need the count.
Do CTRL-SHIFT-Home key
Select "Words" in the Word Count toolbar dropdown.
Word will give you the number of words in the selection, since your
selection ends with your target word, the total is the index you seek. There
is no "Sentence" in that dropdown. If all your paragraphs are one sentence
long, you can use the paragraph count (Or line count?), but add one because
the current paragraph is not counted unless its ¶ is part of the selection.

If you need a "real" sentence count, you will need VBA for that (I write
"real" because a sentence to Word maybe different from your concept of a
sentence...)

 

[Stefan Blom]

When you insert an index, it will be added at the insertion point. But note
that you must also mark entries to be included within the index. To mark
text, press Alt+Shift+X; this displays the Mark Index Entry dialog box. Then
insert an index, or update an existing index with F9. See
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/Createindex.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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[MLBARR]

Hi
I need to get the word index where the cursor is currently positioned

for example
if i have 3-7 sentence in my document

this is line one
cursor is at XXX word
this is line three and cursor is at XXX in above line

how shd i get
cursor location is at sentenc 2 and word 4

Regards