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)

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See *How to Insert Current Weather and Word Count into Your Document* p307 in the Pages09_UserGuide.pdf downloadable from under the Help menu.
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It's dificult to read page 307 in a guide containing 266 pages.
On page 37 I may read how to view word count and other document statistics but,
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