The Need to Know...
OK. Here's the scenario:
You have been assigned to supervise a group of people to update
the Employee Manual. Now your boss wants to know how long
it is; how long has it been since anyone revised it; when was it
first created; who worked on it last; and how much time has been
spent on it.
So, you go into Windows
Explorer and look at it in Details View and you can see when it
was last modified and how many kilobytes large it is. But,
the boss doesn't want kilobytes. He doesn't even want
number of pages. He wants the number of Words.
So, you open up the document
and start counting.
Stop right
there!!
There's an easier way to find
out everything you want to know about your Word document.
Open the document in Word and go to the File menu and Select
"Properties". In this box, click on the
"Statistics" tab. In here you can see how many
lines are in the document, how many paragraphs, how many pages,
how many words, and even how many individual characters.
It also tells you who was the last person to work on it, how
many times it's been revised, and the total amount of time that
has been spent editing it!
So, you go marching into the
boss's office armed with the facts and present them to him.
He's impressed to say the least. But, in typical boss
fashion, he doesn't tell you this. Instead, he says
"Very nice. Now all I need to know is the number of
words in Section 3."
You smile sweetly and go
stomping back to your cubicle to start counting again.
Stop once
more!!
All you need to do is double
click on the first word in Section 3 to select it, then
move to the end of the last word in Section 3 and hold down the
shift key and click once. Now, all of Section 3 is
highlighted. Now, go to the Tools menu and select
"Word Count" and there's the number of Words in
Section 3.
Back to the boss's office
within less than a minute with the answer. This time he
gives you a raise!
Hang in there!
Linda
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