WordCount is a Windows application that counts the words in a
document, a la the the Unix WC utility.  I wrote it to help
with writing letters to the editor, which often have limits
on their length in the number of words they'll allow.
It consists of a single dialog box window.  The window 
has controls for selecting the source of the text containing 
the words to count, as well as displaying the resulting
word count.

The basic operation is very simple.  Just after you click on
the icon, a file open dialog comes up for selecting an ascii
file to check.  After that, the main dialog comes up, with a
control that displays the number of words in the file.  You
can just cancel out of the file select dialog to get to the
main dialog and select the source of the text to count there.

There's also a "Clipboard" button that will count the words
in a selection copied to the clipboard.  This is useful in
counting the words in other applications: just select the
section containing the words you want to count, copy it,
and hit the clipboard button in the Wordcount dialog.

Another control are the file selection edit control and
the Browse button for selecting ascii files after the 
Wordcount dialog comes up.  If you use the Browse button
to select a file, the count is automatically calculated
and displayed.  If you type the filename manually, you
have to hit the Count button to recalculate the count.
The Count button can also be used to recalculate the
number of words in a selected file after the document
has been edited by another application.

Wordcount also supports drag and drop for selecting files
to perform wordcount on.  Just select a file from Explorer
and drag it on top of the Wordcount dialog.  Wordcount will
count the words in the document and display it.