


So let’s see how to count the total number of words in each case. Now there can be two possibilities: There is a single space between each word There are multiple spaces between words. You can also insert other document properties into your Word document, including built-in and custom properties. So to get the word count, we can count these spaces instead of words and add 1 to the total (as the number of space would be one less the number of words). To update fields in headers, footers, footnotes, and endnotes, you must open those parts of the document and update the fields in them separately. If you have other fields in your document you want to update, you can update all of them at once by pressing “Ctrl + A” to select the whole document (minus any headers, footers, footnotes, or endnotes) and then pressing “F9”. NOTE: When the cursor is in word count number, the number is highlighted in gray because the number is a field. Once you add or delete words in your document, you can update the word count by right-clicking on the word count number, and selecting “Update Field” from the popup menu. The bar itself actually shows the word count, but if you click on it you get the full statistics box. The number of words in your document is inserted at the cursor. In Word 2007, the word/character count can also be accessed via the left of the bottom bar. Click “OK” to insert the field into the document. However, for the number of words, you don’t need to apply any formatting so don’t select anything from those lists. The “Format” and “Numeric format” lists allow you to specify the format for the field being inserted.
