Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated February 27, 2025)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021
A while back 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 find 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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