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Word includes a feature that allows you to quickly determine a number of statistics about your document. For instance, you can determine the number of words, sentences, and paragraphs in your document. By default, Word doesn't include anything in footnotes or endnotes in these statistics. But you can specify that text in those areas be included by following these steps:
Figure 1. The Word Count dialog box.
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2015-03-16 10:15:32
dave britten
Hi Word 10
In my experience footnotes or endnotes are included by default in the word count. I have been caught out submitting essays with too few words, as the footnotes had been included.
If you save a blank page with footnotes un ticked it will remain like that for that document only.
A new document will have footnotes or endnotes enabled.
Hope this helps
Dave Britten
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