A quick Word tip

As someone who has to constandly write to a certain word count, I'm constantly bringing up my document's statistics in Word so see how close I am to my limit. This morning, when starting an article I decided to look for a simpler way. Well, it turns out that Word (starting with the 2002 version) has a "Word Count toolbar". To turn it on select View|Toolbard|Word Count from the menus. (Feel free to dock this toolbar wherever you feel it's appropriate.) Unfortunately, the count doesn't update as you type (oh how I wish it would) but to get an updated word count for your document all you now need to do is click on the Recount button.