Very puzzling word count

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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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"aitch" wrote in message
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> 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.

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