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>Thanks for that Yuri. I'd give you three stars if you could tell me how to make GETWORDCOUNT/NUM to do the same (i.e. return the results I need) <g>
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>Would you consider this a "bug"? Did it ever work like I expected?

Mike,

Stars are helpful for other people to see and to navigate to the suitable solution in similar situations. So, stars are not for me, but for others.

As of your question, then let us apply common sense: words we used to see in sentences, and they are separated by spaces. Whether empty space we consider as a word? How are you going to say it aloud? Thus, "word" related functions are not for data records, though they can be used in some situations.