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From: "Harold Fuchs" on 10 Mar 2010 04:46 "ben bolton" <bsbolton(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:32937e761003081634h10df7c43n771948ab04352206(a)mail.gmail.com... > Hello Open Office! > > I have been using your products for years, absolutely fantastic, i suggest > it to everyone, even back when i was in high school, working for retailers > i > would always tell people not to buy Microsoft! I have just begun online > college, many of my assignments have a certain amount of words required > for > each question. Continuously having to select the word count from the menu, > though it doesn't sound like much, can be quite annoying. So i would like > to > suggest adding a running word count, for those of us students who like to > do > the bare minimum! > > Thank You, > > Ben Bolton > What you could do is to pick a convenient place in your document and insert the word count field there; then, as you type, all you need do is press F9 and that field will automatically be updated. To insert the word count field go to Insert>Fields>Other>Document>Statistics and select the "Words" field. Alternatively you can assign a key to the display of the word count: - Go to Tools>Customise>Keyboard - under Category, select Options - under Function, select Word Count - in the top panel, select a key, for example F4 but you could choose anything that's not currently un use. - Click Modify. Now, when you press the chosen key, the Word Count field will be displayed as if you had chosen that option from the menu. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please do *not* reply to my personal e-mail address. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org
From: Mike Scott on 10 Mar 2010 05:14 Harold Fuchs wrote: > > "ben bolton" <bsbolton(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:32937e761003081634h10df7c43n771948ab04352206(a)mail.gmail.com... >> Hello Open Office! >> >> I have been using your products for years, absolutely fantastic, i >> suggest >> it to everyone, even back when i was in high school, working for >> retailers i >> would always tell people not to buy Microsoft! I have just begun online >> college, many of my assignments have a certain amount of words >> required for >> each question. Continuously having to select the word count from the >> menu, >> though it doesn't sound like much, can be quite annoying. So i would >> like to >> suggest adding a running word count, for those of us students who like >> to do >> the bare minimum! >> >> Thank You, >> >> Ben Bolton >> > What you could do is to pick a convenient place in your document and > insert the word count field there; then, as you type, all you need do is > press F9 and that field will automatically be updated. To insert the > word count field go to Insert>Fields>Other>Document>Statistics and > select the "Words" field. > >..... Harold, you seem to have understood the question differently from me. As he mentions word count per question, I rather assumed he wanted to see the word count 'up to this point', rather than for the whole document. Then he could easily get the words per question. AFAIK OOo won't do this (only the count for the entire document), but perhaps the OP could clarify his intent. Maybe I've misunderstood. (He is, BTW, unsubscribed. I've cc'd him on this, but ask that any response go to the list. OP - I'd suggest you check http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for more information on the OOo mailing lists. You're likely to miss replies if you're not subscribed to the list.) -- Mike Scott mike <at> <removeme>.scottsonline.org.uk Harlow Essex England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org
From: Andreas Saeger on 10 Mar 2010 07:37
Hi Ben, A useful word counter in a floating dialog: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=22555 You can enter a target count to make it display the percentage of your work done. It displays the word count within a selection of text or the overall count if no text range is selected. Put the linked python file into <user profile>/Script/python/ and create a customized menu entry, button or event macro. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-help(a)openoffice.org |