How many words openoffice

Reason: tagged [Solved]. Re: Automatic displayed word count by Greengiant » Mon Nov 11, am Welcome to the forum. There is a word count feature. If you select several words it will be counted also as a separate display, alongside the totals.

You can of course adulterate your version by customising the tool bar and adding it. There is also an old word count extension which does the same thing. Description ptram UTC Hi, As a journalist, I would like to always see the character count, without having to open the Statistics dialog box each time.

It would be a great idea to add this info in the status bar under the document window. Best regards, Paolo Comment 1 michael. When the custom status bar is displayed, information such as word and character counts for the entire document and the view cursor's current loaction characters from left and lines from top of page are displayed.

When a selection is made Word counts for the selection are dsiplayed. If a portion of the status bar was made available via the API then it would be easier to implement custom status information.

James McKenzie Comment 6 jjmckenzie UTC Tested suggestion of using Macro to force change and this is acceptable to me as a method to get around this requirement. No all users want to look at the word count in their document. I am aware this is a piliminary, but a headsup for those who want to test it. It doesn't save in a template. It doesn't stay as a preference. It messes up dictionaries so they only will spellcheck in German Tends to crash Neo Office. Doesn't save within a document once you close poof.

So it's good for a demo run, but don't actually use the listed Macro with the intention of using it long-term. So don't take that Macro seriously It's a demo, as it said.

I'd like to see this as a preference under preferences Be a good alternate to that useless "Word Count" one where you can't select the window behind it to get a word count. It beeps and then you have to type some more then activate it, close it, etc.

I'll patiently wait for it. Thank you for the hard work on this. I met a journalist and meet this issue immediately. The macro crash my OpenOffice 3. Comment 11 fhro UTC This enhancement is essential in my view. I am a student and need to see the word count in every essay and report I am writing.

Having to stop what I'm doing -- and break my though process and generally get out of a writing head space -- to check word count through navigating menus is a constant pain. When at work, and working in Microsoft Office on the Macs there, every station has live word count enabled because it's literally one of the most often-used and necessary features in the program.

Aside from spell check, I don't think there's any other feature we use more on a daily basis. Also, because I've managed to find an OpenOffice macro that will provide live word count in a separate window, I don't see why it would be difficult to add this feature. The code is already there, just put it in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. It baffles me that this hasn't been done yet. Here are the steps to use the word count of OpenOffice 3.

Type or paste the words that you want to count. A new window will now show if how many words that you have. General Computers. This article has been viewed 4, times. This wikiHow will show you how to use the word count feature to find the number of words in your document. Open your document in OpenOffice. Select the text you want to count. Click Tools. Click Word Count. Did this summary help you? Yes No.

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