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WordService - Add useful text handling to Cocoa apps
Authored by: robg on Jan 31, '05 03:12:58PM

Pages *can* count words. It cannot count words in a selection. I've looked, read the manual, taken the user's tour, tried every menu selection with and without a selection active ... if it's in there, I have no clue where it's hiding.

The overall count is in the Document tab of the inspector, on the Info tab of that tab (if that makes sense :)). It gives you all sorts of counting stats, but they are for the entire document. This is the only word count option mentioned in the manual.

Until someone proves me wrong, I don't see any way to count words in Pages unless you want the count in the total document. I've probably spent a good three hours looking for it, scattered over my time with the program.

-rob.



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WordService - Add useful text handling to Cocoa apps
Authored by: adrianm on Jan 31, '05 05:45:22PM

3 hours looking for a selection word count? You should get out more.
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WordService - Add useful text handling to Cocoa apps
Authored by: robg on Jan 31, '05 06:01:17PM

Hehe ... I was involved anyway, doing the writeup for Macworld. So off and on, I went digging. It seems so ... obvious. But no, not there, near as I can tell.

-rob.



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