word 2004 word count only shows total

[mack]

In one document only of approx 100 000 words, the word count only shows
the total. All other documents [some quite large] show the number of
words on any given page. I need this feature. How do I get it working,
please? [Have tried copying the whole document onto a new blank doc,
but I suppose I am auto copying whatever setting is causing the problem
as well. Your help is much appreciated.]

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

In one document only of approx 100 000 words, the word count only shows
the total. All other documents [some quite large] show the number of
words on any given page. I need this feature. How do I get it working,
please? [Have tried copying the whole document onto a new blank doc,
but I suppose I am auto copying whatever setting is causing the problem
as well. Your help is much appreciated.]

If you select some text and run Tools | Word Count, Word will automatically
only count the selection. That should be a suitable workaround that gets you
what you need.

If you want a fix, more details are required:

What version of Word?

Where is the word count showing up? Are you running Tools | Word Count or
what? I don't think I've ever seen Word give me words per page, so you can
you be more detailed about how you get that in the other documents? At
present I have no idea what you are referring to.

Also, re the copying to a new document--as a corruption fix, it's not just
copying, but a partial copy. You have to *exclude* the last paragraph mark,
when you copy.

That last paragraph mark holds a lot of information which can get corrupted,
and copying the text into a document with a fresh one keeps your formatting,
but can fix some glitches.

A paragraph mark is a gray ¶. Click on ¶ on the standard toolbar to show
nonprinting characters, including paragraph marks.

Hope that helps,

 

[CyberTaz]

I'm as confused as Daiya, especially since Word doesn't recognize a 'page'
element in the first place.

The only time I have ever seen a count of something less than total words in
the document is if the content is in a Table, Text Box or Frame. In those
cases you can run Word Count on a selected 'container' & the count will
pertain specifically to it.

Regards |:>)

 

[Guest]

What version of Word? office 2004 for mac

Where is the word count showing up?

normally shows in the column at the bottom of the page frame [about
bottojm centre--shows eg 37/17 000 = word 37 out of a 17000 word doc =
the position at the cursor.


Are you running Tools | Word Count or

what? I don't think I've ever seen Word give me words per page,

no--it doesn't give words per page, just words at cursor--i.e word 37
on the page and the total number of words per document

THIS DOCUMENT: doesn't give ANYTHING unless you press tools/word count
in the toolbar--then it ONLY gives the TOTAL words NOT the number of
words at the cursor position. Hope that's clear.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Okay, got it now.

Word | Preferences | View--under Window, make sure "status bar" (what you
call 'column at bottom of page frame', though that's a row and under it,
"Live Word Count" are checked.

Live Word Count is what you are using. Since I keep the status bar off
entirely, I've never paid attention to it. Glad you are enjoying it.[1]

The status bar pref is kinda sorta per-window--if you turn them off/on while
multiple windows are opened, only the active window will respond--but all
doc opened after that will also follow the current prefs setting.

Actually, on second thought--it's entirely possible that this feature turns
off automatically because 100,000 words is too many for it to keep track of,
it's a memory hog anyhow--or because the status bar can't show a 6 digit
number there. I've got the pref checked but nothing showing with a 117K word
doc, just like you. You may just have to give up, unless this feature is
more important than keeping the doc in a single file.


[1] Live Word Count will be part of a brand-new, highly touted status bar in
WinWord 12. Presumably it's been engineered not to suffer from the issues
mentioned here.

What version of Word? office 2004 for mac

Where is the word count showing up?

normally shows in the column at the bottom of the page frame [about
bottojm centre--shows eg 37/17 000 = word 37 out of a 17000 word doc =
the position at the cursor.


Are you running Tools | Word Count or

what? I don't think I've ever seen Word give me words per page,

no--it doesn't give words per page, just words at cursor--i.e word 37
on the page and the total number of words per document

THIS DOCUMENT: doesn't give ANYTHING unless you press tools/word count
in the toolbar--then it ONLY gives the TOTAL words NOT the number of
words at the cursor position. Hope that's clear.

Thank you for your help.

 

[Guest]

Word | Preferences | View--under Window, make sure "status bar" (what
you
call 'column at bottom of page frame', though that's a row and
under it,
"Live Word Count" are checked.

Yes, done.

Live Word Count is what you are using. Since I keep the status bar off

entirely, I've never paid attention to it. Glad you are enjoying it.[1]


The status bar pref is kinda sorta per-window--if you turn them off/on
while
multiple windows are opened, only the active window will respond--but
all
doc opened after that will also follow the current prefs setting.

Actually, on second thought--it's entirely possible that this feature
turns
off automatically because 100,000 words is too many for it to keep
track of,
it's a memory hog anyhow--or because the status bar can't show a 6
digit
number there. I've got the pref checked but nothing showing with a 117K
word
doc, just like you. You may just have to give up, unless this feature
is
more important than keeping the doc in a single file.

looks like I'll have to--incovenient.At least it's not me. Thank you so
much for your help.