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I use Thunder to do word counts on my Word 3.01 documents.  I select the
whole document, fire up thunder, ask to check the selection, and then
just execute STATS from the dialog box that ensues.

The problem is, Thunder gives me a different word count practically
every time I run this sequence.  The character count stays the same,
but the word count varies by +-20%.

Anyone have a clue what's happening?  How to fix?  Another way to get
a reasonably quick word count on a Word 3.01 document (the method of
copying the document and replacing all white space with \n and then
doing a line count which has been discussed here in the past is not
"reasonably quick", in my book)?

Thanks for any help,

Dan Gordon