1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<helpdocument version="1.0">
3
4<!--***********************************************************
5 *
6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
7 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
8 * distributed with this work for additional information
9 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
12 * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
13 *
14 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
15 *
16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
19 * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations
21 * under the License.
22 *
23 ***********************************************************-->
24
25
26
27
28<meta>
29      <topic id="textswriterguidewords_countxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
30         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Counting Words</title>
31         <filename>/text/swriter/guide/words_count.xhp</filename>
32      </topic>
33   </meta>
34   <body>
35<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149686"><bookmark_value>words; counting in text</bookmark_value>
36      <bookmark_value>number of words</bookmark_value>
37      <bookmark_value>documents; number of words/characters</bookmark_value>
38      <bookmark_value>text; number of words/characters</bookmark_value>
39      <bookmark_value>characters; counting</bookmark_value>
40      <bookmark_value>number of characters</bookmark_value>
41      <bookmark_value>counting words</bookmark_value>
42      <bookmark_value>word counts</bookmark_value>
43</bookmark><comment>MW deleted "character counts"</comment>
44<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>
45</variable></paragraph>
46      <list type="ordered">
47         <listitem>
48            <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>
49         </listitem>
50         <listitem>
51            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149821" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="5">Choose <emph>Tools - Word Count</emph>.</paragraph>
52         </listitem>
53      </list>
54      <section id="how">
55         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id1116200901133957" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">How does $PRODUCTNAME count words?</paragraph>
56         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1116200901133998" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">In general, every string of characters between two spaces is a word. Tabs, line breaks, and paragraph breaks are word limits, too.</paragraph>
57         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1116200901133985" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">Words with dashes or always visible hyphens, as in plug-in, add-on, user/config, are counted as one word each.</paragraph>
58         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id111620090113399" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">The words can be a mix of letters, numbers, and special characters. So the following text counts as four words: abc123 1.23 "$" http://www.example.com.</paragraph>
59      </section>
60      <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>
61      <embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/>
62      <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>
63   </body>
64</helpdocument>