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Ruby & MS Word: Counting Words And Pages

06.22.2009
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        From the <a href="http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com">Ruby on Windows</a> blog...


require 'win32ole'

WdStatisticWords = 0
WdStatisticPages = 2

word = WIN32OLE.connect('Word.Application')
doc = word.ActiveDocument
word_count = doc.ComputeStatistics(WdStatisticWords)
page_count = doc.ComputeStatistics(WdStatisticPages)


Further details <a href="http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/2009/06/ruby-word-counting-words-and-pages.html">here</a>.
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