MS Word counts words? not in tables
I’ve never mentioned this before, but it had to be said one day: if you highlight text in MS Word and run a wordcount, the result will show the data for the highlighted portions. But this only works to some extend within a MS Word table: If you simply highlight a few words and run a wordcount, you’ll get the correct count. If your highlighting, however, includes a cell marker (or in other words - if you highlight at least one complete cell), then MS Word counts all words in the table.
Why? well.. because.. hm..