Microsoft Visual Basic
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Exercise: Linking Word to Excel to analyse word count

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1)	Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-418.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2)	You should find that this document already contains a macro:
	This macro prints out the text of each word
3)	Amend your macro so that it loops over all the words in this story, either: adding the word to an Excel spreadsheet if not already found; or increasing the word count in Excel if this word has already been added.
4)	Your final output should look like this:
	After sorting, you should find THE is the most common word
5)	Save this document with the same name, then close it down.

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