Word Count for a Selection in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word bristles with useful keyboard shortcuts. Many are well known, but some obscure shortcuts deserve to be rescued from oblivion. One of these (CTRL-SHIFT-G) displays word statistics for a text selection. Select the text whose words you want to count, and hit CTRL-SHIFT-G. A small window pops up with text statistics for the selection. I use the word count, but also shown are the character count, line count, etc. In my example (see the above image), I selected the m