A Word document can compute its own page and line count as can be seen on the File->Properties->Statistics page. These values can also be calculated via the Word object model as follows: 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -l


    use strict;
    use Win32::OLE;
    use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Word';

    my $word = Win32::OLE->new('Word.Application');

    my $doc = $word->Documents->Open('c:\temp\test2.doc');

    die "Unable to open document ", Win32::OLE->LastError() unless $do
+c;



    my $pages = $doc->ComputeStatistics(wdStatisticPages);
    my $lines = $doc->ComputeStatistics(wdStatisticLines);
    my $words = $doc->ComputeStatistics(wdStatisticWords);


    print "Pages:\t", $pages;
    print "Lines:\t", $lines;
    print "Words:\t", $words;


    $doc->Close;

    __END__

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I couldn't get the Word Const to work under -w without generating warnings (although it works fine under warnings). So here are the required constants just in case: 
    wdStatisticWords                = 0
    wdStatisticLines                = 1
    wdStatisticPages                = 2
    wdStatisticCharacters           = 3
    wdStatisticParagraphs           = 4
    wdStatisticCharactersWithSpaces = 5
    wdStatisticFarEastCharacters    = 6

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John.

In reply to Re: How to get MS-Word Page count and line count? by jmcnamara
in thread How to get MS-Word Page count and line count? by nicholas

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