Reply To: Word Count a book

My solution for now is the following:

GREP search:

• search for: b.+?s (description: wordBoundary anyCharacter oneOrMoreTimes(ShortestFit) anySpaceCharacter)
• change to: $0 (description: replaceWithFound)
• search in: all documents (description: InDesign searches in all opened documents)

IMPORTANT:

• Save before searching and close your document after you have performed the search; so you will not save any corrupt files.
• Watch out that you don't search and replace any formatting.
• If you do something wrong (e.g. insert one different character) you can kill you document(s) – but you can undo the search with cmd+z.