Counting Words /text/swriter/guide/words_count.xhp words; counting in text number of words documents; number of words/characters text; number of words/characters characters; counting number of characters counting words word counts MW deleted "character counts" Counting Words If you want to count only some text of your document, select the text. Choose Tools - Word Count.
How does $PRODUCTNAME count words? In general, every string of characters between two spaces is a word. Tabs, line breaks, and paragraph breaks are word limits, too. Words with dashes or always visible hyphens, as in plug-in, add-on, user/config, are counted as one word each. The words can be a mix of letters, numbers, and special characters. So the following text counts as four words: abc123 1.23 "$" http://www.example.com.
To get some more statistics about the document, choose File - Properties - Statistics. File - Properties - Statistics