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-To anyone who works with words, [[Adobe Acrobat]] is an indispensable tool. If you are as obsessed with judging brevity as I am, you will have noticed it has no [[word count]] function.  You would not think it is beyond the wit of Adobe’s developers to put one in. But no. In a software package that has been around since 1984, they’ve never thought to include a word counter.
+{{a|Technology|}}To anyone who works with words, [[Adobe Acrobat]] is an indispensable tool. If you are as obsessed with judging brevity as I am, you will have noticed it has no [[word count]] function. You would not think it is beyond the wit of Adobe’s developers to put one in. But no. In a software package that has been around since 1984, they’ve never thought to include a word counter.
-But there ''is'' a way of natively counting words in Acrobat.  It is the most ludicrous thing you will ever see. Here, for lovers of the fantastically absurd, it is:
+But there ''is'' a way of natively counting words in Acrobat — not, sadly, the “Reader” version, but it does work in Professional, and sometimes in Standard, depending on your licence. It is the most ludicrous thing you will ever see. Here, for lovers of the fantastically absurd, it is:
 '''STEP ONE''': Open your Adobe Acrobat File.