How many times a word is used in a document

[helpme]

Is there any way I can find out how many times a word is used in a word 2007
document? I would like to see a list of all the words used. Thanks for your
help!

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Is there any way I can find out how many times a word is used in a word 2007
document? I would like to see a list of all the words used. Thanks for your
help!

One way to do the former is to do Find-Replace, replacing the word by
itself ("Replace All"). Word then tells you how many changes it made.

The latter is called a "concordance" -- there's some sort of
concordance feature, but I don't know how to use it ...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For any given word, you can use the Find dialog. Select an instance of the
word, press Ctrl+F to open the dialog (which will have the selected word in
the "Find what" box), and click Find In. The default choice is Main Document
(if the insertion point is in a header or footer, you'll also get a choice
of Headers and Footers; if a block of text is selected, Current Selection
will be included). Word will then select every instance of the word and
return the message "Word found x items matching this criteria."

It gets even better in Word 2010: If you select a word and press Ctrl+F, the
Navigation pane opens with the Find tab showing; all instances are already
selected, with a heading of "x matches."

For Word 2003 users, the same option requires checking "Highlight all items
found," selecting a range, and then clicking Find All.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org