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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] wordcount
From:       Mike McCallister <workingwriter () prodigy ! net>
Date:       2003-10-02 20:05:48
Message-ID: 6.0.0.22.0.20031002150156.06019450 () pop ! prodigy ! yahoo ! com
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Thanks, Steve (and Alan Frayer) for the semi-pointer. A Google search 
pointed me to scripting.openoffice.org, which in turn got me to 
http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html, the home of Andrew 
Brown's Useful Macros.

I'm going to go try these out.

Mike, yet another journalist on the list

At 01:28 PM 10/2/03, you wrote:
>-------------------
>On Thursday 02 October 2003 18:52, Mike McCallister wrote:
>| You can get a word count from File > Properties > Statistics. I've added
>| this to my toolbar (well, at least the Properties, which defaults to the
>| Stats tab).
>|
>| I wish there was a way to select text and then get a word count, but I
>| gather this is difficult to do.
>|
>| As to the words outlined, I'm not sure I'm visualizing right. Do you have
>| the Auto Spell Check on, and you're getting the underlining? Or is
>| something else happening? If you right-click on the outlined word, what are
>| your choices?
>|
>| Mike
>|
>
>
>You might also want to think about installing the macros by Andrew Brown
>(alas, I've mislaid the URL, but I'm sure someone else will come along to
>help). These are ridiculously easy to install. You download an OOo document
>(.sxw), open it in OOo and click on a button in the document. The macros
>include one that gives a word count for a selected portion of text. Just
>assign this macro to a key combination and you can word count all you like.
>It seems to work pretty well, though I'd include the 'paragraph count' as
>this is easily fooled by blank lines.
>
>BTW, I'm also a journalist, which is why I wanted this facility. I guess for
>those of us who get paid by the word, word counts are very important!



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