Is it possible to exclude words from the wordcount? In Microsoft Word.

Why would you do that?

Yea. You cut 'em out.

I dont think so... unless you could temporarily remove the word from the dictionary.
(It dosn't count misspelled words right?)

I dont know how you would do that though :whistle:

But why would you need to?

I'm sure I speak for the rest of the forum when when I ask you: Why on gods given earth would you want to exclude words from a word count? :huh:

to count the other words. :D

now can someone tell me why did the psychic cross the road?

Because if he stayed where he was he knew he would get run over?

Wait you mean excluding some words from the word count or...?

Excluding words like the and etc. If you must know it's for an essay and we can't count certain words.

Well, in case it's not above like 800 words you should've no trouble counting them yourself and excluding certain words yourself ;)

If however it is some kind of "book" you've written there, I don't have the slightest idea how to exclude words.

You could, however make a list (on paper) for every word that shouldn't be counted, then save another copy of the essay, search for every appearance of every word on your list, erase them all, and then look at the word count.

You could also tell your teacher they should go and *beep* themselves ;)

Just guess, no one will ever control it down to the last word, anyway.

I came here expecting a hiphop related thread <_<

If what has been said about it not counting mispelled words is correct, then you can use the find and repalce function (Ctrl-F) to replace all the "the"s into soemthing, then all the "etc"s into soemthing else. Then conut the words, then replace them back in the same way.

find (ctrl. F) ---> the

count them

repae for other words. once you count all the words you dont' want, deduct them from full word count and oyu will be left with words you wanted to count.

As if your teacher is going to sit and count each word... but just make sure that if he says that you have to have 600 words at least... you have 620 to make up for it.

That could work.

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BLATANT SPAM. Titan, if you please.

Danny: Bah.. nm him.. he's 15 and a vergin.. so for him b00bies are still something that makes him giggle.. It's more tragic then annoing.. He'll drop it (won't ya? ; ) once he realizes noone is minding him or finding him intresting.. Just another kid who thinks he's cool until daddy Titan pays a visit.

Meh. Okies.

Anywho, back to topic..

haha good one Titan :)

Anyways.. I'm not 100% sure but I think OpenOffice does have something to do this...

Open Office is free, yes?

and opensource :P

I came with my New Zealand Made computer I live in New Zealand cameFree Pre installed.

Where do I get it?

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try Google.com it's a great search engine... :tomato:

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OpenOffice.org