From: donlhumphries@bigpond.com   
      
   The Word Count facility in a WORD document can be useful, but may need to be   
   taken with some caution.   
     It seems a "word" is rather loosely defined, as congruent punctuation can   
   be part of a word; a word being any string of characters between blanks.  A   
   group of numbers is a word.   
     The statistics resulting from Word Count can be used to derive other data:   
   Number of words per page; Average length of a word; Average number of words   
   per line; and number of spaces (between words).   
     Word Count is handy for the aspiring novelist, or short story writer, in   
   determining if he/she has fulfilled the daily three thousand word quota.   
     What computer program is used to give us Word Count?   
     QBasic, based on DOS?  Or, more likely, Visual Basic?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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