MS Word Character Count

We just had to figure this out in the office and I found the instructions somewhere online.

If you ever need to get a character count, not just a word count, in MS Word, this is what you need to do:

1. open the Word document
2. click on the Office button
3. Select Prepare
4. Select Properties
5. There's a drop down at the top, left-hand corner of the new bar that just opened. Select it and click on Advanced Properties.
6. The window that just opened up has a Statistics tab, click on it.
7. Voilá

Resetting MS Word's Language Settings

Excellent post today by GoLanguages.com about the steps required when resetting the language settings in MS Word for a particular document you are working on.

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Via Wil Wheaton's (yes of Star Trek The Next Generation fame) Twitter timeline...of all places.

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a malapropism used to indicate inexperience by intentionally and incorrectly merging the terms 'Internet' and 'World Wide Web.' The joke is that many inexperienced users access content on the World Wide Web (or "Web") via the "Internet" without knowing what either is.

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