how do i word count a document in word pad please?

how do I word count a document in word pad please?

Copy and Paste it to an app which could count words.   One would be PowerShell but you would need to have the PSCX  ClipBoard  cmdlets  to do it.   Then I think  Measure-Object  could do what you want.   I don't think that PowerShell would be able to read a WordPad document directly but I suppose if it all looked like text (and not binary) it could.   Another option which would avoid the need of the PSCX cmdlets would be to copy and save the text as text using Notepad and then apply the  Measure-Object  cmdlet to the equivalent .txt file.

FYI

Robert Aldwinckle

Count.  One word, two words, three words, etc.  WordPad is not a full-fledged word processor and lacks many of the features full-fledged word processor does.