Helmut, Thank you so much. This gets me very close to what I need.
Unfortunately it seems to be counting punctuation as words. For instance I
ran the macro on the following piece of literature and got:

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the
year, when / the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been
passing alone, on horseback, through / a singularly dreary tract of country;
and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening / drew on, within
view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was; / but, with the
first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my
spirit. / I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that
half-pleasurable, because poetic/ , sentiment, with which the mind usually
receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible/ . I
looked upon the scene before me upon the mere house, and the simple landscape
features of / the domain upon the bleak walls upon the vacant eye-like
windows upon a few rank sedges and / upon a few white trunks of decayed trees
with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to / no earthly
sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveler upon opium the
bitter lapse / into every-day life the hideous dropping off of the veil.

Any further assistance would be GREATLY appreciated! Thank you! Was in your
beautiful Bavaria in June. It was just lovely.

Thanks again Helmut.

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