1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 3cdf0e10cSrcweir 40e4b25e7SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 5cdf0e10cSrcweir * 60e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 70e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 80e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 90e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 100e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 110e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 120e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13cdf0e10cSrcweir * 140e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15cdf0e10cSrcweir * 160e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 170e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 180e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 190e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 200e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 210e4b25e7SAndrew Rist * under the License. 22cdf0e10cSrcweir * 230e4b25e7SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 240e4b25e7SAndrew Rist 250e4b25e7SAndrew Rist 26cdf0e10cSrcweir 27cdf0e10cSrcweir 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir <topic id="textswriterguidewords_countxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Counting Words</title> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir <filename>/text/swriter/guide/words_count.xhp</filename> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir </topic> 33cdf0e10cSrcweir </meta> 34cdf0e10cSrcweir <body> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149686"><bookmark_value>words; counting in text</bookmark_value> 36cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>number of words</bookmark_value> 37cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>documents; number of words/characters</bookmark_value> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>text; number of words/characters</bookmark_value> 39cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>characters; counting</bookmark_value> 40cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>number of characters</bookmark_value> 41cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>counting words</bookmark_value> 42cdf0e10cSrcweir <bookmark_value>word counts</bookmark_value> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark><comment>MW deleted "character counts"</comment> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3149686" role="heading" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><variable id="words_count"><link href="text/swriter/guide/words_count.xhp" name="Counting Words">Counting Words</link> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir <list type="ordered"> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir <listitem> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149821" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="5">Choose <emph>Tools - Word Count</emph>.</paragraph> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir </listitem> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir </list> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir <section id="how"> 55*09d889a5SRegina Henschel <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id1116200901133957" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">How does %PRODUCTNAME count words?</paragraph> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir </section> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir <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> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir <embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147418" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="4"><link href="text/shared/01/01100400.xhp" name="File - Properties - Statistics">File - Properties - Statistics</link></paragraph> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir </body> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument>