InDesign CS5 Word Count

You guys above are over thinking this haha.   If you don't want to count the words for the entire document just highlight the text you'd like to count then Window > Info (f8).

If you are using OSX this AppleScript will get the document count:

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6"

    tell active document

        set s to every story

        set t to 0

        repeat with i from 1 to count of s

            set t to t + (count every word of item i of s)

        end repeat

        display dialog "The active document has " & (count of s) & " stories, with a total of " & t & " words"

    end tell

end tell

Place your cursor in your story, and choose Window > Info to open the Info panel.