Appleworks: word count, footnotes and text frames.

Hi there!
Does anybody know if footnotes and text boxes are automatically included in a word processing document word count? If they are, is there a way of excluding these from the word count? Am writing a 12,000 word dissertation, and footnotes and illustration references (which I have put in separate text frames)don't count towards this figure, but some of mine are huge so I'm worried about them distorting the word count.
Thanks
ibook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

AppleWorks offers an option to Count Selection in the Word Count dialogue. Click in the main body of the text, then press command-A to select all. Then go Edit > Writing tools... > Word count... In the dialogue, click the Count Selection checkbox, and you'll notice the count goes down.
Unfortunately, this eliminates only the words contained in Text frames, which, as objects, aren't selected along with the text. Footnotes are included in the text selection, and are included in the count.
To eliminate footnotes (and text in frames) from the count do this:
•Click in the body text and Select All (command-A)\
•Copy (command-C)
•Open a new (temporary) word processor document
•Paste (command-V)
•Find/Change (command-F)
--in Find, enter "\f" (without the quotes) (\f is the marker for a footnote)
--leave Change empty
--Click Change All, then OK the warning and the alert telling you how many changes were made.
•Go Edit > Writing tools...> Word Count.
•Close the temporary document without saving.
The process copies the main text and footnotes to a new document, then removes all of the footnotes before you do the word count.
Regards,
Barry

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