HELP: Excluding footnotes from the word count

Hello!,
I'm a post-grad student, currently writing my dissertation, and I am hoping one of you might be able to help:
Q: Is there any way to exclude footnotes from the total word count?
I've tried it via Inspector > Document > Info, but all I get to see is the total word count including all footnotes and there's no checkbox to switch it of (like in MS-Word)
Footnotes are not included in the total word limit for my dissertation (20.000 words), and if I cant work out how to have Pages counting both footnotes and document text individually, I need to revert back to MS-Word and can't use Pages08 at all (major pain, not only as I then just wasted $79)
Any help & support would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

Unfortunately, no version of Pages has this fine-grained control over document components and their word count, so the answer is no, regarding user changeable settings.
Programmatically, I just told AppleScript to count the words of body text in a currently opened Pages v5.2 document. The count matched the Pages word count for the document. So, no solution there either.

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