HowTo Geek recently had a short tutorial on using field codes, and I started with that for this little tip. If you have Word 2007 or 2010, adding a word count field code is a snap. Start by ...

Display the field code with the reset switch, { seq \r 1}, by pressing [Alt]+[F9]. Highlight the field code (see Figure E) along with the parentheses, if you mean to include them too.