Word keeps track of quite a bit of summary information for your documents. One of the pieces of information maintained is the number of characters in your document, and another is the number of words. This information is updated whenever the document is saved or printed. Word allows you to insert this summary information into your document by following these steps:
Figure 1. The Field dialog box.
By combining these two fields, you can easily calculate the average word length. To do this, follow these steps:
{={NumChars}/{NumWords}}
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2014-06-16 11:35:22
Raquel
Is it possible to use NUMCHARS to display the number of characters in a block of text instead of the whole document? How?
2014-03-22 07:39:23
ppboo
How can I insert a field code to count words in a piece of document (ie: in a section). I tried with a combination of the field code IF, but I cannot succed.
Thank you in advance
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