Getting a Word Count

How do you get a word count on Pages? I know how to do it on a PC, but I searched everywhere and found nothing on pages.

(1) Entering the Help and searching for Word Count, we get a response in the second reference offered.
(2) Searching with the same keystring in the PDF User Guide, the first occurence is a fine one.
(3) entering the Preferences, the first page contains a check box entitled: "Show word count at window bottom".
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Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE vendredi 6 mars 2009 11:45:11)

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How do I get a word count in Pages 5.5.2?

I have a 21.5" iMac, bought December, 2014. I have Yosemite 10.10.2 installed and I am using Pages 5.5.2.
How do I get a Word Count in Pages 5.5.2?

View menu > Show Word Count.
A floating panel will appear at the bottom of your document. Pass your mouse over the right-side of this floating panel and you will see up/down arrows. Click. Choose Word count from the list of available counts. The floating panel now displays word count, until you change it again. You can also move this floating panel with a command+click+drag, in case you want it below your footer content.
You might want to download the free WordService service solution from the OS X App Store. I provides you with many additional features (e.g. Sort Ascending, Document Statistics, etc.) The act of downloading this application will install, but not activate several services. You activate what you want in:
System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services : WordService:servicename.
The WordService application will be in your LaunchPad (on your left Dock). Run it and choose Help. This will launch the Preview PDF viewer and a document showing all the Services available, and their description. Services in OS X act on selected document content. If you want more detail on the number of words, characters, and spaces in a selected paragraph, you would use Pages > Services > WordService:Statistics.

How do I get a word count in pages on my iPad?

Two questions: I am writing a document on iPad:in Pages.
1. How can I count the words?
2. I keep backing it up on iCloud, but document does not appear on my iMac. How do I get it to copy to there?
Many thanks
Bill

Word count: Tap the wrench icon at the top and choose Settings from the menu that opens. Turn on Word Count.
Do you have iCloud turned on on your iMac? You need to make sure Documents and Data syncing to iCloud is turned on on the computer.

How can I get a word count in iCloud Pages Beta?

Apparently there is no way to get a document word count in iCloud Pages Beta. Has anyone figured out a work around for this?

View menu > Show Word Count.
A floating panel will appear at the bottom of your document. Pass your mouse over the right-side of this floating panel and you will see up/down arrows. Click. Choose Word count from the list of available counts. The floating panel now displays word count, until you change it again. You can also move this floating panel with a command+click+drag, in case you want it below your footer content.
You might want to download the free WordService service solution from the OS X App Store. I provides you with many additional features (e.g. Sort Ascending, Document Statistics, etc.) The act of downloading this application will install, but not activate several services. You activate what you want in:
System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services : WordService:servicename.
The WordService application will be in your LaunchPad (on your left Dock). Run it and choose Help. This will launch the Preview PDF viewer and a document showing all the Services available, and their description. Services in OS X act on selected document content. If you want more detail on the number of words, characters, and spaces in a selected paragraph, you would use Pages > Services > WordService:Statistics.

Problem with getting word count in TLF text

Hi,
I want to get the word count from my TLF text, but the problem is that I am not being able to handle th case for space.
I am using the findNextWordBoundary property of ParagraphElement as shown below:
private function countWords( para : ParagraphElement ) : void
            var wordBoundary:int = 0;
            var prevBoundary:int = 0;
            while ( wordBoundary != para.findNextWordBoundary( wordBoundary ) )
               // If the value is greater than 1, then it's a word, otherwise it's a space.
                if ( para.findNextWordBoundary( wordBoundary ) - wordBoundary > 1)
                    wordCount += 1;
                prevBoundary = wordBoundary;
                wordBoundary = para.findNextWordBoundary( wordBoundary );
                // If the value is greater than 1, then it's a word, otherwise it's a space.
                if ( wordBoundary - prevBoundary > 1 )
                    var s:String = para.getText().substring( prevBoundary, wordBoundary );
                    lenTotal += s.length;
Now I have 2 issues here:
If my string is for eg: Hi, I am writing in "TLF". And I want to get its word count then
1) Suppose I take the case of the string Hi, . Then para.getText().substring( prevBoundary, wordBoundary ) gives the text as Hi i.e without the comma. Same case for the string "TLF forums" , It treats each " as a single word and not the whole "TLF" as a single word. Why doesn't it compute till spaces, that should be the ideal case. So until we don't give a space it should count the whole thing as a word.
2) So now the problem is I have applied a condition   if ( wordBoundary - prevBoundary > 1 ) to check if it is a space i.e. if the diff is <= 1 it is a Space. But if I use this I miss out on single words. Like for eg if I have "Hi, This is a string" ,then 'a' is ignored too.
Now I could have added a check here along with the space check that the string between prevBoundary and wordBoundary is " "(i.e a space), Then also it is a problem as then the single words like a,&,I will be ignored.
So, now I am stuck with this issue and need some help from you guys.
Thanks

findNextWordBoundary is not going to serve your purpose. I'd propose doing something like this:
// didn't test this but something like this - whitespace matches any set of 1 or more white space characters
static const whiteSpaceRegExp:RegExp = /[u0020|u000A|u000D]*/
public static function countWords( para : ParagraphElement ) : void
     return para.getText().split(whiteSpaceRegExp).length;
A good list of everything considered whitespace extracted from the unicode space can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/adobe/tlf/svn/449/tree/trunk/textLayout/src/flashx/textLayout/utils /CharacterUtil.as
In function createWhiteSpaceObject
Hope that helps,
Richard

Is there a way to exclude title, heading and bibliography text from the word count in pages?

I've just got the newest version of pages.
The word count includes everything, from titles to endnotes - including the numbers in my sub-headings.
I used to use open office where you could select a style i.e. 'body tex't, and get a word count that didn't include every single word in a document.
Is there a way of doing something similar, or reseting the word count to only 'body text' so I know exactly how long my essays are?
Thanks.

Unfortunately, no version of Pages has this fine-grained control over document components and their word count, so the answer is no, regarding user changeable settings.
Programmatically, I just told AppleScript to count the words of body text in a currently opened Pages v5.2 document. The count matched the Pages word count for the document. So, no solution there either.

Word Counts in HTML Help

I have about 800 topics in a RoboHelp HTML help project. I
need to send the files out for translations, so I need to get a
word count. Is something in RoboHelp that will generate a word
count on all files in a project?

I use this all the time:
http://www.globalrendering.com/download.html
Its a free tool called Translator's Abacus and it can count
words in any set of files.
Jeanne

Word Count and Footnotes

Hello,
I have looked at some of the posts on word count but I need to do a word count that automatically includes footnotes. MS Word supports this. Does Pages and, if so, how?
Many thanks.

Stephen1965 wrote:
Thanks for the prompt reply. I should clarify:
The automatic word count does indeed include footnotes, but if you use the inspector and a selection of text there is no option to include a word count of any footnotes attached to that selection.
I need to be able to select sections of the document and get a word count that includes the footnotes that belong to that section.
Feature unavailable but available.
Select the block of text in the main text layer.
Grab the word count.
Select the footnotes.
Grab the word count.
Make an addition and you will know the wanted word count.
_Go to "Provide Pages Feedback" in the "Pages" menu_, describe what you wish.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait _at least_ for iWork'10
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 29 septembre 2009 17:24:31
Thanks again.

Cs3 word count slow

the word count in my indesign cs3 takes several minutes to calculate a 120 000 word document. i never had this issue with cs2. (apart from changing from cs2 to cs3, i've upgraded from tiger to leopard, and upped the ram on my imac g5 from 768mb to 2gb).
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There doesn't seem to be a problem getting the word count via a script. The Applescript below returns the total word count. I tested it on a doc with 28000 words and it returned the count instantly on my MacPro.
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS3"
tell active document
set wordcounts to {}
tell every story
set wordcounts to wordcounts & (count every word)
end tell
set total to 0
set totalstories to count every item of wordcounts
repeat with i from 1 to totalstories
set total to total + (item i of wordcounts)
end repeat
display dialog "Total words in all " & totalstories & " stories: " & total
end tell
end tell

How do you get word count to print at the end of a document in Pages?

How do you get word count to print at the end of a document in Pages?

Pages v5 does not provide a user assignable word count variable. With some AppleScript, and a paste operation from the clipboard, you can have locale punctuated word count in this format: 7,803 — anywhere in your document. The following AppleScript works with Pages '09 v4.3 through Pages v5.5.2 on Yosemite.
I would suggest that you copy paste the following AppleScript into your [Apple] Script Editor and save it (suggestion) wordcnt.applescript. Then, follow this with an option+Save As… and this time set the File format to Script Bundle, or Application with hidden extension — saved to your Desktop. Provided you have a Pages document open, you are then a double-click from the ability to paste your current word count into Pages.
Note: If you have Pages word count display enabled, it will automatically count your pasted value as another word which initially may deceive on true word count at the time the script was run.
AppleScript
--- copy below this line ---
property locale : "en_US.UTF-8" -- In Terminal, use the locale command to see yours
if not ApplicationIsRunning("Pages") then
     display dialog "Pages must be running to use this utility."
     return quit
end if
tell application "Pages"
    tell body text of front document
        set wordCnt to count words
        -- Don't want punctuated numbers? Remove the single quote from printf format
        set the clipboard to (do shell script "export LC_ALL=" & locale & "; printf \"%'d\" " & wordCnt)
    end tell
end tell
on ApplicationIsRunning(appName)
     tell application "System Events" to set appNameIsRunning to exists (processes where name is appName)
     return appNameIsRunning
end ApplicationIsRunning

How do you get a word and character count of a document in Pages for Mavericks

How do you get a word and character count of a document in Pages for Mavericks?

Hi jonathan,
I struggled with this one as well, as i'm finishing up a PhD thesis and word counts are incredibly important. Through trial and error i found out that words like 'e.g.' and 'i.e.' count as two words and an ampersand (&) doesn't count at all. That being said, i didn't like the fact that the word count always included footnotes and i was dismayed that i couldn't get an accurate count of words in the main body of my text. That all disappeared yesterday when, by chance, while i was copying a completed chapter and pasting it into my main document, i discovered that Pages can indeed give you an accurate word count excluding the footnotes! Here's all you need to do:
1. In pages 5.2, make sure that the Word Count function is first enabled by selecting View --> Show Word Count from the Pages Menu Bar. (If it's already enabled, it will read View --> Hide Word Count, so if that's what it says, then no need to do anything.)
2. Once enabled, check the Word count that's currently showing at the bottom of the page. That's the word count including your footnotes.
2. Now, place your cursor anywhere within the current document, then hit command+A (for Select All).
3. Viola! Your word count now shows the actual number of words within the body of the text only, excluding footnotes!
Hope that helps!

Trying to write Javascript code to get word count

I copied code from an internet source and spent hours making adaptations so that my code would compile in Adobe Acrobat XI form Actions.
Nothing I can do will make the script recognize that a character is a space. I need to count spaces so that I can count words.
Finally I gave up and tried to use Replace to replace spaces with some other character that perhaps the program would recognize, but I can't get the Replace method to work either. Well, I can get it to work for the first instance of a space in the string, but not replace all spaces in the string. I have tried the "/text/g" convention and the "text,newtext,"All" convention. Do I really have to write another loop to replace the spaces individually?
It seems so odd that there aren't more simple functions in Java (I'm new to Java) - it's like programming in machine language. And every function I investigate has more than one syntax I guess depending on what version Javascript you are using - and I can't even find out which version of Javascript Acrobat Pro XI is using!
Following is my code - I will be doing something with the wordCount - this is just an initial snippet:
    var f = getField(event.target.name);
    var input = f.value;
    var wordCount = 0;
    if (input.trim.isEmpty){
        wordCount = 0;
    else {
        wordCount = 1;
    for (var i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
        var ch = input.charAt(i);
        var str = new String("" + ch);
//        if (i+1 != input.length) && (str == " ") && (!("" + input.charAt(i+1)) = " ")){
        if (i+1 != input.length && str === " " && "" + input.charAt(i+1) !== " "){
            wordCount++;
app.alert (wordCount);

See adracadabraPDF.net and the free utilities they offer. There is a word counter by page and document.
The example from the Acrobat JS API Reference:
Example
Count the number of words in a document
var cnt=0;
for (var p = 0; p < this.numPages; p++)
cnt += getPageNumWords(p);
console.println("There are " + cnt + " words in this doc.");
The above is for the content in a PDF.
If you want to count the words in a form field, you need to determine how you want to split the field value and change certain white space characters to a given character like a space.
You can use the "split()" method to convert a field value to an array of items based on the "split" character.
If your entry is just a line of text and does not have have any punctuation for string termination you can use
var aWords = event.value.split(" ");
console.println("Number of words: " + aWords.length;

Pages 08' Word Count?

Is there a word count for Pages 08? If so, how do I see it or view it?

PeterBreis0807 wrote:
But Yvan I had to teach you how to do that.
You had to teach me that quotes are required for Preview under 10.5 because I don't use 10.5 !
In fact I don't use Preview because I prefer Adobe Reader which displays my docs a better way.
here Preview under 10.5
here Adobe Reader (10.4 and/or 10.5)
More to the point is that if the Word Count function is in a logical location, why are so many unable to find it without resorting to searches of the manual?
Because most of them doesn't search seriously.
But, even it the location was odd, it's not normal that they ask here before searching in the Help AND in the PDF User Guide.
The forum is not a catch all questions recipient.
The Help and terms of use clearly urges them to search in the delivered resources.
These resources are:
(1) the menus themselves
(2) the Inspectors themselves
(3) the Help
(4) the PDF User Guide which is delivered with every copy of iWork, on disk or in downloaded versions
(5) last not least, in the existing threads.
For my own use, I searched in the Help and in the PDF because I was surprised to read users claiming that they didn't found the info.
Doing that, I discovered that what _I got in the Edit menu_ is also available in an Inspector in which I had never searched as I was already able to get the tool in the menu.
When I searched in the Help I found nothing useful.
When I searched in the PDF, as I am running 10.4, Preview and Adobe Reader gave the response instantaneously.
You wrote here that under 10.5, Preview behaves differently.
I checked and in my response I wrote that quotes may be required.
Last not least, searching in the existing threads give also the response immediately.
So, from my point of view, if we continue to read the question here it's only because many users think _"why would I make the effort to search by myself when there will be some one which will give the response on the forum"_ . In other words, lazyness is becoming the rule.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mercredi 24 septembre 2008 17:28:05)

Indesign CS6 Total Document Word Count... No?

I left the following comment on a Youtube tutorial explaining how to execute a word count query for an Indesign document ASSUMING your article layout uses a single box of text:
What if an article uses a creative layout with multiple text-boxes? Are you supposed to get out your pocket calculator and add them up one-by-one?
I work for a magazine that publishes short, submission-style testimonials bridged together with staff-generated narrative copy; some of our articles use six or more discreet text-boxes. You REALLY MEAN TO TELL ME that there is NO WAY to yield a TOTAL DOCUMENT WORD COUNT using what is SUPPOSED TO BE the MOST ADVANCED page layout application ON EARTH??
Pardon my exasperation in the above comment, but....Seriously?
I need someone knowledgeable to please look me in the eyes and tell me, "This is true", before I am going to be able to let myself believe it.
Thank you.
- Exasperated Journalist Slag

Yes, there are ways, just not what you expected.
One approach to counting words in multiple text frames in InDesign is to thread them together. To maintain the pieces of text in their assigned threaded text frames, you can create a paragraph style that starts in the next frame, and assign it to the first paragraph in each text frame. Or, you can break the threads when the count is stable.
If the text frames need to adjust their size to the amount of their content, search Google for terms like "indesign auto resize text frame" without quotes for details.
There was a recent discussion about auto-resizing text frames that mentioned the free AutoFit InDesign plug-in, from typefi.com. Search Google for terms like "indesign typefi autofit" for details.
Search Google for terms like "threading and unthreading InDesign text frames" without quotes, for details.
Search Google for terms like "indesign start paragraph in next frame" without quotes, for details.
You can file a formal feature improvement request here: Wishform.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
evanexempt wrote:
I left the following comment on a Youtube tutorial explaining how to execute a word count query for an Indesign document ASSUMING your article layout uses a single box of text:
What if an article uses a creative layout with multiple text-boxes? Are you supposed to get out your pocket calculator and add them up one-by-one?
I work for a magazine that publishes short, submission-style testimonials bridged together with staff-generated narrative copy; some of our articles use six or more discreet text-boxes. You REALLY MEAN TO TELL ME that there is NO WAY to yield a TOTAL DOCUMENT WORD COUNT using what is SUPPOSED TO BE the MOST ADVANCED page layout application ON EARTH??
Pardon my exasperation in the above comment, but....Seriously?
I need someone knowledgeable to please look me in the eyes and tell me, "This is true", before I am going to be able to let myself believe it.
Thank you.
- Exasperated Journalist Slag

I am writing a dissertation, which I have to send to my university in Word format. In Pages the current word count is given as 12,000, but when opened in Word on another laptop (not a Mac) the word count was 9,000. How do I know which is correct?

Is the word count in Pages inclusive of footnotes?

Sounds like you have a lot of counting to do. Lol jk; I'd test with a new doc with 5 words and see which one gets it right. if they're the same; add footnotes to one and see which one says what. Just standard process of elimination.

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