Comments on: How many words are in my document? Word Count in Word 2007 http://thenewpaperclip.com/2006/09/24/how-many-words-are-in-my-document-word-count-in-word-2007/ Help, Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials for Word, Excel, Outlook, Office 365 and more Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:53:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Lonchik http://thenewpaperclip.com/2006/09/24/how-many-words-are-in-my-document-word-count-in-word-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-1209 Lonchik Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:02:34 +0000 http://thenewpaperclip.com/2006/09/24/how-many-words-are-in-my-document-word-count-in-word-2007/#comment-1209 This doesn't quite work if the document is protected from modification, but is allowed to edit form fields. In that case, clicking the button does not bring up the dialog box. Workaround: Assuming the document is not password protected (but rather just from accidental modification), then you can remove the protection by opening Review : Protect Dcument : Restrict Formating and Editing, and in the panel clicking remove protection. Then you can click the button and see the dialog box, or highlight the portion tha you want statistics on, and click the button then to see statistics on the selection. I'm assuming this is a bug in the new version. This doesn’t quite work if the document is protected from modification, but is allowed to edit form fields. In that case, clicking the button does not bring up the dialog box.

Workaround:

Assuming the document is not password protected (but rather just from accidental modification), then you can remove the protection by opening Review : Protect Dcument : Restrict Formating and Editing, and in the panel clicking remove protection.

Then you can click the button and see the dialog box, or highlight the portion tha you want statistics on, and click the button then to see statistics on the selection.

I’m assuming this is a bug in the new version.

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