I'm a graduate student in psychology and would like to create a program that
will accurately track characters, words, sentences, and/or paragraphs and
send that data to MS Excel. The objective would be to track the productivity
of thesis and dissertation writing.

One problem I see, however, is that if the user deletes words while in a
document, then the number of words typed will not represent the total of new
words typed, but the net gain or loss of words deleted and typed. Therefore,
it could be inaccurate to get a word count when the document is first opened
and then subtract the wordcount when it is closed if words from a previous
session have been deleted.

How can I track the words deleted from a document so that I can calculate an
accurate figure of "work done" during a given typing session?

I've been procrastinating on my writing, so as much help as you can give in
terms of code will be very helpful--one of my big distractions has been
programming in VB/VBA.

Thanks much!
Geoff