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Including Footnotes and Endnotes in Word Counts
Summary: Unless you instruct it otherwise, Word will not check footnotes or endnotes when calculating the number of words in a document. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 6, Word 95, Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, and Word 2003.)
Word includes a feature that allows you to quickly determine a number of statistics about your document. For instance, you can determine the number of words, sentences, and paragraphs in your document. By default, Word doesn't include anything in footnotes or endnotes in these statistics. But you can specify that text in those areas be included by following these steps:
- Choose Word Count from the Tools menu. Word displays the Word Count dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)
- Make sure the Include Footnotes and Endnotes check box is selected.
- Review the document statistics, as desired.
- Click on Close.
Tip #911 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 6 95 97 2000 2002 2003
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