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Advanced VBA | Links to other applications exercise | Linking Word to Excel to analyse word count
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You should find that this document already contains a macro:

This macro prints out the text of each word
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.
Your final output should look like this:

After sorting, you should find THE is the most common word
Save this document with the same name, then close it down.