Thanks for your advice, Mark. Invariably all the page breaks are natural ones
- I always try to avoid inserting any. I'm moving on now - see the other note
from me in the thread.

Aitch.

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
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> It counts the page breaks. Insert a few and the count will go up in the
> details view, but not on the word count dialog.
>
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> Mark L. Ferguson
>
> "aitch" <aitch372@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B66DA849-D4CD-4A17-AC61-245B86346530@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > On my machine there are a number of stories I have written - varying from
> > over 70000 words down to about 1000. I need the number of words to let
> > potential editors know when I submit something to them and use the normal
> > Word Count that comes with Windows.
> >
> > These are stored in a sub-section of Documents. Today I discovered that a
> > right click offers "more" - giving me extra column categories than I
> > didn't
> > know about, and they include one specifically titled Word Count. This
> > seemed
> > like manna from Heaven until I created and used this extra column.
> >
> > Some of the variations between the original W Count from the document and
> > the one automatically inserted by Windows in the column are quite
> > striking.
> >
> > For example: (Doc count first) 3959........3032 Diff of 927 words;
> > 3786 3161 "
> > 625 "
> > 12279 10321 "
> > 1958 "
> > 5687 4565 "
> > 1122 "
> >
> > Then, strangely there are 2 sets of figures which match exactly at 2668
> > and
> > 918 and a novel length work at 71796 has a difference of just 3 words.
> >
> > The original word count I used is in Word from Office Pro XP ( now being
> > used on Vista) and the column figures are from Vista itself.
> >
> > Sorry if my sets of figures bore some of you folks out there but what is
> > happening is puzzling and any explanation would be wecomed.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Aitch.[/color]
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