How do I count words in text boxes? in Word General Questions    |   |  Help   Search For:     In:   Office   Word     Word General Questions     Word New Users     Word Application Errors     Word Drawing and Graphics     Word Mailmerge and Fax     Word Page Layout     Word Programming     Word Tables              monicatradutora 11/1/2007 7:06 AM PST   Question   When counting words (or characters) in a document, how do I include the text inside text boxes that happen to be part of the document? I find that the text within these boxes go uncounted. Thank you very much.     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           PJY 11/1/2007 10:25 AM PST   Answer   If you highlight (select) the text, then hit word count it works "monicatradutora" wrote: > When counting words (or characters) in a document, how do I include the text > inside text boxes that happen to be part of the document? I find that the > text within these boxes go uncounted. > > Thank you very much.     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           KBS 7/11/2008 12:03 PM PST   In the Review ribbon under word count, which is the box to the right of the word "translate" there's an option to check a box to count text boxes, headers, footers, etc. What I'm trying to figure out is how to make that the default for every document so I don't have to check it for every document. "monicatradutora" wrote: > When counting words (or characters) in a document, how do I include the text > inside text boxes that happen to be part of the document? I find that the > text within these boxes go uncounted. > > Thank you very much.     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top         Return to Microsoft Communities   Notify me of replies