![]() To view your document in Outline view, click the View tab, and then click Outline in the Document Views group. Hold down CTRL while you select any additional text or item in a table that you want. For example, you can select a paragraph on one page and a sentence on a different page. You can select text or items in a table that are not next to each other. In the Table group, click Select, and then click Select Table. To select the contents of cells, rows, or columns that are not next to each other, click in the first cell, row, or column, press CTRL, and then click the additional cells, rows, or columns that contain the content that you want to select.Ĭlick in the table. The contents of multiple cells, rows, or columnsĬlick in a cell, a row, or a column and then hold the left mouse button down while you drag across all the cells, rows, or columns that contain the content that you want to select. ![]() In the Table group, click Select, and then click Select Column. In the Table group, click Select, and then click Select Row.Ĭlick in the column. In the Table group, click Select, and then click Select Cell.Ĭlick in the row. Move the pointer over the border of the frame or text box until the pointer becomes a four-headed arrow, and then click.Ĭlick in the cell. Hold down ALT while you drag the pointer over the text. Move the pointer to the left of the header or footer until it changes to a right-pointing arrow, and then click.Ĭlick the footnote or endnote text, move the pointer to the left of the text until it changes to a right-pointing arrow, and then click. ![]() In Print Layout view, double-click the dimmed header or footer text. Move the pointer to the left of any text until it changes to a right-pointing arrow, and then triple-click. Move the pointer to the left of the first paragraph until it changes to a right-pointing arrow, and then press and hold down the left mouse button while you drag the pointer up or down.Ĭlick at the start of the selection, scroll to the end of the selection, and then hold down SHIFT while you click where you want the selection to end. Hold down CTRL, and then click anywhere in the sentence. Move the pointer to the left of the line until it changes to a right-pointing arrow, and then click. Move the pointer to the left of any text until it turns into a right-pointing arrow, and then triple-click.Ĭlick where you want to begin the selection, hold down the left mouse button, and then drag the pointer over the text that you want to select. On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Select, and then click Select All. Subtract those partial word counts from the total to see if you’re under the word limit.Notes: To select an entire document, do one of the following: It now shows the word count of the selection. Select any block of text (e.g a table of contents, cover page etc) and look on the status bar. The judge’s recommendation is to start with the Microsoft’s Word Count (with footnotes included) then subtract anything that the rules let you exclude from the count. In this case Rule 32(f) excludes these items from the word count accepted by the court. ![]() Microsoft doesn’t get to decide what’s included in a word count, judges do.Ĭertain parts of a submission might not be included in a word count. It’s the same behavior in the latest Word 365 for Windows and back to Microsoft Word 2010. The word total is the same in both places (Info pane and Word Count dialog), what’s included depends on the ‘Include textboxes, footnotes and endnotes’ setting in the full Word Count dialog box/panel. We respectfully disagree with the judge when he said ‘ The program’s “Word Count” panel includes footnotes, which the “Properties” panel omits.’ (page 2 of the judgement) Checking that box changes the word count in that box and on the Info | Properties pane. The option to include/exclude footnotes etc. In modern Word (Windows or Mac), click on the word count in the bottom Status Bar to see the details. Microsoft Word’s Word Count feature by default does NOT include footnotes, endnotes or textboxes. It’s a summary which doesn’t indicate what’s in or out of the word count. A brief summary in the document properties pane, these days at File | Info | Properties. Many types of documents have word count limits which may, or may not, match what Microsoft Word includes in its word count. The plaintiff is representing himself (‘pro se’) so the judge was more lenient than if a professional had done this. Most courts have rules about the length of submission which, in this case, were accidently exceeded. A judgement from the US Court of Appeals turned on the Word Count feature in Microsoft Word and how it differs from the rules for court submissions.
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