Last week I was working with a document that actually contained a list of movies in my home video library. Each movie title was on a single line, but as far as Word was concerned, each was a single paragraph. (In other words, each movie title had a "hard return" at its end.)
I got to wondering how many movies I had in my library, so I used a tried-and-true simple way to finding out:
That's it—quick and easy and you can tell how many items are in whatever group of items you selected in step 1.
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2018-02-21 12:12:06
Hi Allen,
I am printing postcards (two per page for a total of 600) and need to number each postcard. How can I do this?
2015-05-16 08:10:06
Jill Sharkey
If each movie title is a separate paragraph, click on Word Count in the Status Bar. The dialog displays the number of paragraphs in the document that have text (ignores empty paragraphs).
2014-12-06 11:22:57
Igor
Lyn, you opened my eyes... Thanks!
2014-12-06 05:36:48
Lyn Imeson
A quick way to count the occurrences of an item in the text: do a Find/Replace with '^&' in the Replace box. The result tells you how many were found without changing them. Combined with Wildcards this can be very useful.
E.g. I often have to tag items in text. I use this method to check I have the same number of <TIP> tags as </TIP> tags.
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