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Wow! I am impressed!
Feb. 19th, 2010 07:42 amThe file that upset me so yesterday had an initial word count of 20.
These words were scattered over 57 pages, and after I had dealt with every last text box in the file, the final word count was... 20.
It's a well-known "feature" of Word that it doesn't count words in text boxes, which sometimes makes a chore of the translator's life, dependent as it is on word count.
This is a case in point.
Incredibly, there is utility called Complete Word Count available at no charge online, at the web site of one Shauna Kelly, that appears to do a bang-up job counting words that Word ignores in its word count: headers, footers, comments, and text boxes.
Oh, and the word count for the text boxes in the file?
2,481
Cheers...
P.S. One strange thing that happened when I tried to download it to my Windows 7 machine: the directory in which it was to be saved was suddenly marked "read-only" before the file was saved, meaning the file wasn't saved. Saving on webster went well, and the file passed an extra virus and malware scan, so go figure...
These words were scattered over 57 pages, and after I had dealt with every last text box in the file, the final word count was... 20.
It's a well-known "feature" of Word that it doesn't count words in text boxes, which sometimes makes a chore of the translator's life, dependent as it is on word count.
This is a case in point.
Incredibly, there is utility called Complete Word Count available at no charge online, at the web site of one Shauna Kelly, that appears to do a bang-up job counting words that Word ignores in its word count: headers, footers, comments, and text boxes.
Oh, and the word count for the text boxes in the file?
2,481
Cheers...
P.S. One strange thing that happened when I tried to download it to my Windows 7 machine: the directory in which it was to be saved was suddenly marked "read-only" before the file was saved, meaning the file wasn't saved. Saving on webster went well, and the file passed an extra virus and malware scan, so go figure...
