If you only need to know how many times each word is used, Microsoft Word's CTRL-F = find command can do that for you easily.
If you want to do more varied things, I would suggest learning a programming language like Ruby. You definitely don't need fifty years to learn one; for simple purposes like counting words, an hour or so of the right tutorials should set you on your way.
-- to get a computer to do some sorting instead of going to a college or university for fifty years to learn computer programming
-- I was wondering if any one knows of a computer program or computer software which allows you to sort matrixes - well tables -- not tabulate them like open office
-- but you have lets say one thousand words in a table
- the program can go in and tell you how many times each word was used
-- in fact - the more flexible the program the nicer
-- I was hoping something I could use - so it would have to be fool friendly
- please and thank you