Article ID: 276475
Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q276475
SUMMARY
This article demonstrates how to use a Word Visual Basic for Applications macro to perform a word count of a specific word in a document.
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Sub Find()
Dim MyCount As Integer
Dim MyWord As String
Dim Total As Integer
Dim intI As Integer
'Prompt the user for the word to search for.
MyWord = InputBox("What word are you looking for?:")
'Select the entire document
Selection.WholeStory
'Count the total number of words in the document
Total = Application.Selection.Range.Words.Count
'Enumerate through each word selected, removing leading
' and trailing spaces
For intI = 1 To Total
With Selection.Words(intI)
If Trim(.Text) = MyWord Then
MyCount = MyCount + 1
End If
End With
Next intI
'Display results
MsgBox "Found " & MyCount & " occurrences of: " & MyWord & _
" out of a total of: " & Total & " words"
End Sub
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