[snip] Once you're connected to a word document, you'll have to figure out what the command to count the words in the document is, but that's just a matter of recording a macro in word where you count the words, then repeating it in python.
Another option would be to write the python program from within OpenOffice.org if it's available -- it has facilities of opening and accessing word documents as well.
I'd help you with that, but I'm on linux.
Most things I do are on Linux as well; but the OpenOffice solution should work equally well on either platform.
HTH, Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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