Microsoft KB Archive/50420

Word Count Different from Open Character Count

PSS ID Number: Q50420 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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The character count that is displayed when a Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, version 4.0 or 5.0, document is opened counts every printable character in the document. This count includes characters in the header, footer, and footnotes. The Word Count function (under the Utilities menu in Word 4.0 and under the Tools menu in Word 5.0) does not count the characters in the the headers or footers of the document.

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