How do you do an exact word count on Microsoft Word 2007?

[sasquatch]

:shrug:

[LeftyFingerPop]

1. In 2000, it is under tools....word count....

Probably something similar in 2007?

[kentauros]

3. Unfortunately, MS Office 2007 no longer uses standard menus.

They use "ribbon bars" instead, or these obnoxious "toolbars" that supposedly group the most used command-buttons on top with a flyout button for more buttons... and still no menus.

As my oldest brother was explaining this at our 2007 Christmas, there was probably quite a bit of resistence to the format when they came up with it a few years prior to release. However, as they worked on it and developed it more and more, the rest "came on board" such that by the time it was done, they all thought it was the next best thing to sliced bread. How could anyone hate it?!
(My brother worked as an electrical engineer for HP in their memory systems for over 25 years, so he has a good handle on how bad designs get developed anyway.)

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. Ah, I see...thanks for the explanation...

Sounds like I will stick with 2000 until Microsoft won't let me use it anymore!

[csziggy]

2. My copy shows the count on the bottom bar at the lower left

Page # of # then Words - without doing anything.

I have not customized that part of Word 2007 so it should be standard.

[pokerfan]

5. 1. Open the Review ribbon

2. Click Word Count in the Proofing section

A box will display the number of pages, word count, character count, paragraph count, and line count. You can opt not to include text-boxes, footnotes, and endnotes.

[kentauros]

7. So, is there a way of converting ribbons back into menus?

;)

We have Office 2007 at work, and it's been a suppreme time-waster trying to figure things out. I have to wonder if MS ever thought of just how much loss of production time and quality would happen with the release of this major change in organization. Perhaps you know it and know it well, but most businesses (like the one I work at) don't ever have the time for retraining. We are forced to just "stumble through" the damned thing. I really don't understand why they couldn't have kept the menus, as a transition to the ribbon bars. That would have made more sense and be more agreeable to me :)

[pokerfan]

8. I don't believe so. At least not without installing an add-in

:(

[undeterred]

6. It's a secret.

[Lethe]

9. how do you do anything in Word 2007?

Somebody at MS should be fucking shot for taking the standard interface that we've all used for the past ten years and making it into something everybody has to re-learn, just to do the same shit we've always done

and on top of that, they have the fuckign gall, the fucking audacity to make office 2007 documents incompatible with previous office releases

Ubuntu here i come

[mwooldri]

12. At least download OpenOffice 3 - they have that for Windows.

You can try that out, see if you like it.

It's like MS 2005 in that it has traditional menus... but they're in a completely different format. I liked Words' clipart feature... OpenOffice's is awful in comparison (but exists as an addon). OO takes getting used too too but the learning curve from Word 2005 isn't too steep.

Mark.

[Yavin4]

10. Office 2007 Is Going To Screw Up A Lot of People

It will take you a while to figure out what's going on.

[Wapsie B]

11. So I'm not the only one frustrated by those ribbons?

Glad to see I'm not alone. :banghead:

[kentauros]

13. Nope, you're not the only one.

And AutoCad 2009 Civil 3D even has those ribbons. However, they did have the foresight to realize that most of their users likely would not be up to speed for using Office 2007.

At the same time, AutoCad Civil 3D is a piece of shit. 2008 understood memory management. 2009 threw that out the window as an "improvement" and now I have nicknamed it "AutoCrash".

Sometimes these companies "upgrade" like the Peter Principle, or beyond their own levels of competence