Thom, I presume that you know that Word has its own built it word count. Is there no way that you can write a Word macro that gets the count and writes it to a file? Then you start Word with the macro and read the file(s) in to R:Base.
Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thom Cimicato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 6:54 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Developer Wanted!! > Yes the character count needs to be automated. I have about 50,000 word > documents that I need a character count on. I figured if I could LAUNCH an > exe or call a udf and pass it the file name and get the character count I > would be all set. > > Thom > > > At 10:07 PM 2/19/03 -0800, you wrote: > >im guessing he needs this to be automated > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Mike Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 9:53 PM > >Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Developer Wanted!! > > > > > > > Hello Thomas, > > > > > > Do you really need a special program? It takes a touch longer > > > but you could just highlight all the text in the Word doc with > > > CTRL-A and then copy it. There are quite a few text > > > editors available that you could paste it into and then push a > > > button and they will do a word and or character count for > > > you. Specifically, NoteTab Pro will do it. You can get it > > > at http://www.notetab.com > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Mike Young > > > > > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:55:13 -0500, Thom Cimicato wrote: > > > > > > >I need a special DLL/UDF or .EXE program for a RBG7 program to get > > > the > > > >character count of a MS Word file. I am willing to pay to have this done > > > so > > > >I am looking for a developer that can create this for me. > > > > > > > >Interested parties please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >1-800-338-0676 > > > > > > > >Warmest Regards, > > > > > > > >Thomas Cimicato > > > > > > > >
