From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:21:11 GMT, DonH wrote:   
      
   > 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?   
      
   None of them. I don't have newer than Office 2000, so I can't speak for newer   
   versions, but up to then, Word was written in C++ with some parts written in   
   assembly. It's highly probable that they still do, but I have no way to   
   check.   
      
   (In general, MS doesn't write their programs in any dialect of BASIC.)   
      
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