1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 30e4b25e7SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 4046da525Smseidel * 50e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 60e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 70e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 80e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 90e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 100e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 110e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12046da525Smseidel * 130e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14046da525Smseidel * 150e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 160e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 170e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 180e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 190e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 200e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * under the License. 21046da525Smseidel * 220e4b25e7SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 230e4b25e7SAndrew Rist 24046da525Smseidel<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 26046da525Smseidel<topic id="textswriterguidewords_countxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27046da525Smseidel<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Counting Words</title> 28046da525Smseidel<filename>/text/swriter/guide/words_count.xhp</filename> 29046da525Smseidel</topic> 30046da525Smseidel</meta> 31046da525Smseidel<body> 32046da525Smseidel<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149686"> 33046da525Smseidel<bookmark_value>words; counting in text</bookmark_value> 34046da525Smseidel<bookmark_value>number of words</bookmark_value> 35046da525Smseidel<bookmark_value>documents; number of words/characters</bookmark_value> 36046da525Smseidel<bookmark_value>text; number of words/characters</bookmark_value> 37046da525Smseidel<bookmark_value>characters; counting</bookmark_value> 38046da525Smseidel<bookmark_value>number of characters</bookmark_value> 39046da525Smseidel<bookmark_value>counting words</bookmark_value> 40046da525Smseidel<bookmark_value>word counts</bookmark_value> 41cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark><comment>MW deleted "character counts"</comment> 42*ed2e9b1bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3149686" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U"><variable id="words_count"><link href="text/swriter/guide/words_count.xhp" name="Counting Words">Counting Words</link> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 44046da525Smseidel<list type="ordered"> 45046da525Smseidel<listitem> 46046da525Smseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106D1" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">If you want to count only some text of your document, select the text.</paragraph> 47046da525Smseidel</listitem> 48046da525Smseidel<listitem> 49*ed2e9b1bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149821" role="listitem" l10n="CHG">Choose <emph>Tools - Word Count</emph>.</paragraph> 50046da525Smseidel</listitem> 51046da525Smseidel</list> 52046da525Smseidel<section id="how"> 53046da525Smseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id1116200901133957" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">How does %PRODUCTNAME count words?</paragraph> 54046da525Smseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1116200901133998" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">In general, every string of characters between two spaces is a word. Tabs, line breaks, and paragraph breaks are word limits, too.</paragraph> 55046da525Smseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1116200901133985" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">Words with dashes or always visible hyphens, as in plug-in, add-on, user/config, are counted as one word each.</paragraph> 56046da525Smseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id111620090113399" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">The words can be a mix of letters, numbers, and special characters. So the following text counts as four words: abc123 1.23 "$" http://www.example.com.</paragraph> 57046da525Smseidel</section> 58046da525Smseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106E2" role="tip" l10n="NEW">To get some more statistics about the document, choose <emph>File - Properties - Statistics</emph>.</paragraph> 59046da525Smseidel<embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> 60*ed2e9b1bSmseidel<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147418" role="paragraph" l10n="U"><link href="text/shared/01/01100400.xhp" name="File - Properties - Statistics">File - Properties - Statistics</link></paragraph> 61046da525Smseidel</body> 62046da525Smseidel</helpdocument> 63