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When I am writing an essay, word count included my footnotes, please how do I stop it doing this. I know that every time I create a footnote I can count the works then subtract, but when you have a document 9/10 pages long, it takes a lot of time.

Thank you

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Welcome to this forum jasper!

Press Ctrl-A to select all the text in your document, then click on Tools > Word Count.

See also that thread, there is a link to a feature request: [Issue] Footnotes (Issue 14410).

I have written this extension to count words in different sections of an essay, with a separate wordcount for footnotes. It will do what you want.