Robert,
To get the word count option to appear in your status bar, do the following.
After you press the f6 key to move to the status bar press  either the context menu key or shift+f10.
In the resulting menu arrow down to the word count option and press either the space key or the enter key to toggle the option to the checked position.
Next, press the escape key.
Now you should find the word count option when moving to the status bar.
When you get to the word count option pressing the space or enter key provides the word count dialog with additional information such as line count, character count, etc. You'll need to either use your touch cursor or the JAWS cursor to access this information.


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Subject: [VICUG-L] Qiuestion on word counts

I'm trying to get a word count on my novel. The issue is that when I hit the F6 key, it doesn't give the option for word count, just accessability, speeling and grammar, zomm in and out and etc.
It doesn't seem to affect any of my other documents.
How can I get to word count?
Windows 10 MS Word 20016 & NVDA
Thanks for any suggestions
Robert
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