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Hi, I have a word document with a variety of tables in it. I am trying to
count the number of times a string of letters appear. In excel I would simply
select the field and use the countif, but can't do this in word! Can anyone
help please?

If you find/replace text with itself Word will report the number of hits.
For example, suppose I'm looking for the number of times that "ABcd" (case
specific) occurs in a file. I can do Find/Replace:

Find: ABcd

Replace with: ABcd

Match case enabled

Replace All

Word will tell you how many it replaced, effectively not changing anything.

If case isn't important, then use ^& as the Replace with: string. ^& is the
special match string for "whatever matched the search". Hence, in this case,
if Word found AbCd or ABCD it would replace it with AbCd or ABCD,
respectively.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
"Neil" wrote in message
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Hi, I have a word document with a variety of tables in it. I am trying to
count the number of times a string of letters appear. In excel I would
simply
select the field and use the countif, but can't do this in word! Can
anyone
help please?

thanks for that. I didn't quite explain what I wanted though, what I'd like
is the result shown dynamically in the word document so users can see a
running total of a number of occurances, by the way its office 2003 on XP

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

If you find/replace text with itself Word will report the number of hits.
For example, suppose I'm looking for the number of times that "ABcd" (case
specific) occurs in a file. I can do Find/Replace:

Find: ABcd

Replace with: ABcd

Match case enabled

Replace All

Word will tell you how many it replaced, effectively not changing anything.

If case isn't important, then use ^& as the Replace with: string. ^& is the
special match string for "whatever matched the search". Hence, in this case,
if Word found AbCd or ABCD it would replace it with AbCd or ABCD,
respectively.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
"Neil" wrote in message
...
Hi, I have a word document with a variety of tables in it. I am trying to
count the number of times a string of letters appear. In excel I would
simply
select the field and use the countif, but can't do this in word! Can
anyone
help please?

Word doesn't have that capability. You might be able to get something
acceptable using a macro, although, dynamic updating would be a tall order.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
"Neil" wrote in message
...
thanks for that. I didn't quite explain what I wanted though, what I'd
like
is the result shown dynamically in the word document so users can see a
running total of a number of occurances, by the way its office 2003 on XP

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

If you find/replace text with itself Word will report the number of hits.
For example, suppose I'm looking for the number of times that "ABcd"
(case
specific) occurs in a file. I can do Find/Replace:

Find: ABcd

Replace with: ABcd

Match case enabled

Replace All

Word will tell you how many it replaced, effectively not changing
anything.

If case isn't important, then use ^& as the Replace with: string. ^& is
the
special match string for "whatever matched the search". Hence, in this
case,
if Word found AbCd or ABCD it would replace it with AbCd or ABCD,
respectively.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
"Neil" wrote in message
...
Hi, I have a word document with a variety of tables in it. I am trying
to
count the number of times a string of letters appear. In excel I would
simply
select the field and use the countif, but can't do this in word! Can
anyone
help please?