Keystroke counter

[itla66]

Hi guys. I am a translator and often have to overwrite *parts* of
longer documents. It would be very useful to have a keystroke counter
(not a logger) that displays a little window with the running total of
the number characters I have typed. In Windows, apparently, this can
be done with some low-level api code but I haven't been able to find
out how it's done on a Mac. A Word macro would be ideal, but maybe
it's just not possible. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.
JP in CH

 

[John McGhie]

Hi:

Sorry, no accessible APIs on the Mac...

See the Help topic "Count words and lines in a document" for information.

Basically, if you enable dynamic word count, the word count for the document
appears in the status bar.

If you select text, Tools>Word count will count the words in the text for
you. Keystrokes are a bit more difficult. "Word times 6" will be close.

Alternatively, you can do cunning things with Compare Documents to compare
the finished work with the original and count the words that are
"different".

Hope this helps

Hi guys. I am a translator and often have to overwrite *parts* of
longer documents. It would be very useful to have a keystroke counter
(not a logger) that displays a little window with the running total of
the number characters I have typed. In Windows, apparently, this can
be done with some low-level api code but I haven't been able to find
out how it's done on a Mac. A Word macro would be ideal, but maybe
it's just not possible. Any suggestions are highly appreciated.
JP in CH

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[itla66]

Hi:

Sorry, no accessible APIs on the Mac...

Thanks for your thoughts, John. Sure, Word gives me a character count
(with or without spaces) in Tools > Word Count..., but the problem is
this: in a 60 page document, I might have overwritten only 10 stray
paragraphs. Afterwards, I would have to select each paragraph, run the
word count utility, make a note of the subtotal, go to the next
paragraph and repeat, then finally add up all the subtotals. I'm
looking for a way to just count my keystrokes within a given document.
I was hoping it could be done with Visual Basic. Thx again, John

 

[John McGhie]

As I said: Use Compare documents...

Keep the unchanged original.

After you have finished, use Compare Documents to compare the two into a new
document.

The difference in word count between the old and the new are the characters
you have typed You don't need VBA for this

Cheers

Thanks for your thoughts, John. Sure, Word gives me a character count
(with or without spaces) in Tools > Word Count..., but the problem is
this: in a 60 page document, I might have overwritten only 10 stray
paragraphs. Afterwards, I would have to select each paragraph, run the
word count utility, make a note of the subtotal, go to the next
paragraph and repeat, then finally add up all the subtotals. I'm
looking for a way to just count my keystrokes within a given document.
I was hoping it could be done with Visual Basic. Thx again, John

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[CyberTaz]

I don't know if any will do what you want, but you might check out some of
what's listed here:

http://www.versiontracker.com/php/qs.php?pg=1&str=keystroke&srchArea=macosx|
macosx-all&by=rating&dir=desc

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac