Is there a way to exclude text from word count?

Hi,
I'm writing a research project at the moment and it's about 12000 words. I have to state the word count at the start and it is supposed to exclude everything which comes in reference brackets, eg (Ames, 2009, p.103)
I want to check the word count at the moment so want to exclude all references from the word count, but I dont want to simply delete them all because I still need to work on the doucment!
Is there a way to do that?!

Hi Brigit,
It can be done (or at least estimated closely) using only tools included in Pages, Here's the process:
Record the word count at the bottom left of the document window.
Press command-F to open the Find/Replace dialogue.
Enter an opening parenthesis character ( "("  without the quotes ) into the Find box.
Enter the same character into the Replace with box.
Click Replace all.
Note the count of items replaced below the Replace box (one in the example, your post above):
If all in text references are similar to the sample one provided, each contains four 'words'. Multiply the count by four, subtract the result from the document's word count, and you'll have the result you're looking for.
If your references are of different lengths (eg. (Ames and Smith, 2003, pp.301-303) has a word count of 7), you'll need to adjust the multiplier.
Note that if you have parentheses in your document that are NOT enclosing references, these will be included in the count.
Regards,
Barry

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