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+<meta>
+ <topic id="textswriterguidewords_countxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
+ <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Counting Words</title>
+ <filename>/text/swriter/guide/words_count.xhp</filename>
+ </topic>
+ </meta>
+ <body>
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149686"><bookmark_value>words; counting in text</bookmark_value>
+ <bookmark_value>number of words</bookmark_value>
+ <bookmark_value>documents; number of words/characters</bookmark_value>
+ <bookmark_value>text; number of words/characters</bookmark_value>
+ <bookmark_value>characters; counting</bookmark_value>
+ <bookmark_value>number of characters</bookmark_value>
+ <bookmark_value>counting words</bookmark_value>
+ <bookmark_value>word counts</bookmark_value>
+</bookmark><comment>MW deleted "character counts"</comment>
+<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id3149686" role="heading" level="1"><variable id="words_count"><link href="text/swriter/guide/words_count.xhp" name="Counting Words">Counting Words</link>
+</variable></paragraph>
+ <list type="ordered">
+ <listitem>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN105D1" role="listitem">Word and character count is shown in the status bar, and is kept up to date as you edit.</paragraph>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106D1" role="listitem">If you want to count only some text of your document, select the text.</paragraph>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149821" role="listitem">To display extended statistics such as count of characters without spaces, double click the word count in the status bar, or choose <emph>Tools - Word Count</emph>.</paragraph>
+ </listitem>
+ </list>
+ <section id="how">
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id1116200901133957" role="heading" level="2">How does %PRODUCTNAME count words?</paragraph>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1116200901133998" role="paragraph">In general, every string of characters between two spaces is a word. Dashes, tabs, line breaks, and paragraph breaks are word limits, too.</paragraph>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1116200901133985" role="paragraph">Words with always visible hyphens, as in plug-in, add-on, user/config, are counted as one word each.</paragraph>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id111620090113399" role="paragraph">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>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id111620090113400" role="paragraph">To add a custom character to be considered as the word limit, choose <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC"><emph>%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</emph></caseinline><defaultinline><emph>Tools - Options</emph></defaultinline></switchinline><emph> - %PRODUCTNAME Writer - General</emph> and add the character into the <emph>Additional separators</emph> field.</paragraph>
+ </section>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106E2" role="tip">To get some more statistics about the document, choose <emph>File - Properties - Statistics</emph>.</paragraph>
+ <embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/>
+ <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147418" role="paragraph"><link href="text/shared/01/01100400.xhp" name="File - Properties - Statistics">File - Properties - Statistics</link></paragraph>
+ </body>
+</helpdocument>