Word count

[Francis Hookham]

The 'status bar' (is that the right name) along the bottom of the Word 2001
window shows word position/total number of words or, if a number of words
are selected then the first figure is the word count of the selection

All very useful, although there must be an upper limit because one 350,000
document opened did not show this

Word 2000 (PC) does not show this info on the status bar - is that a failing
of Word 2000 or is there a setting which needs checking

(I could not see an obvious PC newsgroup to post this - there are so many in
the PC world - I have to use both but Mac is my normal environment)

Francis Hookham

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

The 'status bar' (is that the right name) along the bottom of the Word 2001
window shows word position/total number of words or, if a number of words
are selected then the first figure is the word count of the selection

All very useful, although there must be an upper limit because one 350,000
document opened did not show this

Word 2000 (PC) does not show this info on the status bar - is that a failing
of Word 2000 or is there a setting which needs checking

(I could not see an obvious PC newsgroup to post this - there are so many in
the PC world - I have to use both but Mac is my normal environment)

Word Windows does not have Live Word Count display feature. It slows down
performance in long documents greatly, so they decided not to implement it.
One of the Word Windows developers has recently confirmed that reason on his
blog, by the way. (Why they couldn't implement it with a preference to turn
it off, like Word Mac has, I have no idea. It could be off by default.) You
can always check Word Count from the Tools menu (I think its likely to be
the same menu in Windows) whenever you want, and you can add a toolbar
button and/or provide a keyboard shortcut via Tools/Customize. I'm sure
someone has written a macro to display word count in other places and/or on
an automated schedule, but you'd have to ask in a Word Windows newsgroup.
I'd try microsoft.public.word.customization.menustoolbars . (You might
eventually be sent to microsoft.public.word.vba.general or
microsoft.public.word.vba.customization ).

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[Klaus Linke]

I've posted a macro to update the "Word count" toolbar every 2 seconds in
the docmanagement group, just a couple of days ago:
http://www.google.com/[email protected]

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

I must register my personal protest that few things are unhealthier for a
writer than seeing the word count constantly updating.

Dayo

I've posted a macro to update the "Word count" toolbar every 2 seconds in
the docmanagement group, just a couple of days ago:
http://www.google.com/[email protected]

Regards,
Klaus

Word Windows does not have Live Word Count display feature. It slows down
performance in long documents greatly, so they decided not to implement it.
[...] I'm sure someone has written a macro to display word count in other places
and/or on an automated schedule, but you'd have to ask in a Word Windows
newsgroup.
I'd try microsoft.public.word.customization.menustoolbars . (You might
eventually be sent to microsoft.public.word.vba.general or
microsoft.public.word.vba.customization ).

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

According to Chris Pratley, it's because journalists are the one subset of
people who need Word Count that such a fuss is made about it in reviews,
whereas most people don't in fact care about it.

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From: Dayo Mitchell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 01:11:59 -0400
Subject: Re: Word count

I must register my personal protest that few things are unhealthier for a
writer than seeing the word count constantly updating.

Dayo

I've posted a macro to update the "Word count" toolbar every 2 seconds in
the docmanagement group, just a couple of days ago:
http://www.google.com/[email protected]

Regards,
Klaus

Word Windows does not have Live Word Count display feature. It slows down
performance in long documents greatly, so they decided not to implement it.
[...] I'm sure someone has written a macro to display word count in other places
and/or on an automated schedule, but you'd have to ask in a Word Windows
newsgroup.
I'd try microsoft.public.word.customization.menustoolbars . (You might
eventually be sent to microsoft.public.word.vba.general or
microsoft.public.word.vba.customization ).

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word]]

Yeah: On the PC you soon learn to disable the thing if you are working on
long documents: it sucks a lot of power...

According to Chris Pratley, it's because journalists are the one subset of
people who need Word Count that such a fuss is made about it in reviews,
whereas most people don't in fact care about it.

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[Paul Berkowitz]

You can disable it on the Mac, too. (It sounded more as if you couldn't even
enable it on the PC, period. Not so?) In Word Mac:
Word/Preferences/View/[Window]/Status Bar/Live Word Count.

You can still get the Word Count with Live Count off, of course, in
Tools/Word Count, and could assign a Keyboard Shortcut to it if desired via
Customize. That seems pretty good to be, and you don't lose any performance.
This seems best to me - but I'm not a journalist. ;-)

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From: "John McGhie [MVP - Word]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 18:03:51 +1000
Subject: Re: Word count

Yeah: On the PC you soon learn to disable the thing if you are working on
long documents: it sucks a lot of power...

According to Chris Pratley, it's because journalists are the one subset of
people who need Word Count that such a fuss is made about it in reviews,
whereas most people don't in fact care about it.

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