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A caution on the word count feature in Pages 2
Authored by: boxcarl on Sep 08, '06 11:46:32AM

Workaround:

Select all (Cmd-a), copy (Cmd-c), switch to Terminal.app. Type "pbpaste | wc" and press return. The first number is lines/paragraphs, the second is words, the last is characters. If you have Growl's command line utility (growlnotify) and a launcher like Quicksilver, et al., you can make a script file and bind it to a key combination.

My word count script looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
echo "   Lines,  Words,  Chars
`pbpaste | wc`

                        `date "+%H:%M"`" | growlnotify -s


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