Roberto

If you're a Mac user I think you can do the following for a work around that counts large areas of symbols or any other objects in a layer for that matter. Make sure that the symbols are all in their own layer, set layer view to Active Only, then go to the Apple icon (upper left hand corner) and click on "About Vectorworks". The Vectorworks/Landmark info window comes up and gives you "Number of Objects in Layer" as well as "Number of Objects in Drawing". Give it a shot.