Frequency of words in a Word document.

Does anyone know of a utility, attached to MS Word (2003 is what I have) that will give you a count of the number of times each word appears in a document?

I used to have a function like that in some program I was using (obviously not Word - lol), that essentially built an index, with word counts instead of page numbers, of every word in the document.

When I had it I thought it was a pretty silly utility, and in most writing I've done, it'd still be pretty worthless.

I'm currently trying to write erotica, though, and I swear, if I use the word "against" one more time, I will scream.

Anyway, I'm about 30k words into this story, and I know there are lots of repeated words and phrases - I'd love to kill some of them. Normally, I'd just go through and snag 'em by hand, but I tried to go back through the doc from the beginning, manually, and every time I end up getting sucked into editing.

Anyway, anyone know of a Word plugin or a utility that will give me the frequency of all words in a document? I tried some Google searches, but couldn't get the search terms right.

Thanks,

J.

Oh. You are my hero(ine?)

Thanks so much. Looks like exactly what I need.

J.

Hey, a question I can answer! I can't tell you what the terminology means but I can tell you how to make it work, at least for word frequency. (BOY did this help me.)

OK, on the Corpus menu, choose "Create New Corpus" - give it a name and save it wherever you want to. Then choose Corpus->Add Local File and navigate to the Word or text document you are working with. Select it, and click Open. In the buttons on top, the ninth button over is "Show Word Frequencies". Looks like a tick tac toe board with a blue stripe in the middle.

That brings up the word frequency list for the doc.

I think you can add multiple docs, so if you have stuff in chapters, as I do, you can check it for the whole book.

Hope that helped.

J.