Word Count?? Anywhere? Please?!

I just recently switched from Windows to Mac. I love this new word processing program, but I can't seem to find one key tool that Microsoft Word has - the word counter!! Does Pages have a word counter?? Please help, I need this for school! Thanks everyone:)
Also, does anyone know how to change your alias on this discussions board? The name I chose was a bit impulsive, and I'd like to go with a different one if possible! Thanks again~
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Does Pages have a word counter??
Yes, see this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=7127794&messageID=6520088
Also, does anyone know how to change your alias on this discussions board?
It is not possible. Apple has chosen to lock you in to a single alias. If you want to use a different one, stop using this account and set up a new one. Sorry.

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How do you find the word count on MacBook, please?

If you are trying to find word count in a Microsoft Word 2011 documemt, for instance, open the document and go to the Tools menu, selecting Word Count. In Apple's Pages application, open the document and look at the bottom of the page, near the left it will say "X Words" where X is the number.
Best of luck.

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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)
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end tell
on ApplicationIsRunning(appName)
     tell application "System Events" to set appNameIsRunning to exists (processes where name is appName)
     return appNameIsRunning
end ApplicationIsRunning

Can you do a Word Count in Pages?

I am working on College essays and applications and a lot of the essays they require you to write can only be so many words. Is there a way to do a word count on Pages? On my PC, Microsoft Word 07 automatically has the word count in the bottom of the window.
Please help!

In the inspector there is an automatic word count in the document section. All you need to do is select the info column and it should be there!
John

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

TextEdit experts, plug-in/bundle for word count?

Hello,
Can someone please tell me if there is any plug-in/bundle for TextEdit that will provide a file's word count?
Asking the question in this forum because I think many Pages users would be knowledgeable about TextEdit.
Thanks.

Download and install the free WordServices from Devon Technolgy.
It offer a service entitled Statistics which deliver the same kind of infos than the identical function embedded in Pages.
An other scheme is to download install one of the free text editors from third party like :
Bean
iText Express
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 15 juillet 2011 21:11:32
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8
Please : Search for questions similar to your own before submitting them to the community
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Array words count

Hi guys
This code is giving me this output
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18 1851 It has won 112 Pulitzer Prizes more than any other news organization 0
I need to read and split the array (I believe that part works)
I also need to count the words and display it like this
The(1) New(2) York(2) Times(1) is (1) ...etc
I am   System.out.print(token + " " ) ; then I need to count the words and display the number in front
Thank you
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import java.util.StringTokenizer;
* @author rechever
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      sentence1 = sentence1.replaceAll("\\."," ");
      sentence1 = sentence1.replaceAll("\\;"," ");
            StringTokenizer stt = new StringTokenizer(sentence1," ");
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                (stt.hasMoreTokens()){
                String token = stt.nextToken();
               System.out.print(token + " " ) ;
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             // String value = token;
          // insertNode(value);
          // insertNode(value);
            for(int countWords = 0; countWords < sentence1.length(); countWords++ ) {
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         System.out.println(countWords);
            } // end of Main

Believe I try before I ask, if you see the code I was able to split the array, I am having problems with the counts and displaying the results in front of the words..
as you can see I initiated the loop, I just can not get it to work...
for(int countWords = 0; countWords < sentence1.length(); countWords++ ) {
       if(sentence1.isEmpty()) {
         System.out.println(countWords);
            } // end of Main
I need to able to split the array
StringTokenizer stt = new StringTokenizer(sentence1," ");
          // int countWords = 1;
            while
                (stt.hasMoreTokens()){
                String token = stt.nextToken();
               System.out.print(token + " " ) ;
then after the array split I need to counts the words,
this
for(int countWords = 0; countWords < sentence1.length(); countWords++ ) {
       if(sentence1.isEmpty()) {
         System.out.println(countWords);
is not doing the trick..
I am in the business of learning, I am not looking for a free ride...I google it, I look in books
This code is doing it but I have to call a method to insert the array in a Binary tree
something like tree.insertNode (value)
being value the data stoom the split array....
Now if you want to give some ideas (a link, documentation anything of how to call a method from a class that is using maps...that will be great
I though that doing it in a simple array was easy... again, I just learning
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import java.util.*;
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      String[] tokens = input.split( " ");
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                 ///toLowerCase(); // get lowercase word
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         if ( map.containsKey( word ) ) // is word in map
            int count = map.get( word ); // get current count
            map.put( word, count + 1 ); // increment count
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            map.put( word, 1 ); // add new word with a count of 1 to map
      } // end for
   } // end method createMap
   // display map content
   private static void displayMap( Map< String, Integer > map )
      Set< String > keys = map.keySet(); // get keys
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      // generate output for each key in map
      for ( String key : sortedKeys )
      // System.out.printf( "%-10s%10s\n", key, map.get( key ) );
      System.out.printf( "%-5s%-5s", key,map.get( key ) );
     // System.out.printf("\nsize: %d\nisEmpty: %b\n", key, map.get( key ) );
      System.out.printf(
         "\nsize: %d\nisEmpty: %b\n", map.size(), map.isEmpty() );
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} // end class WordTypeCount
Thank you

Tools Scripts Word Count is broken; can I fix it?

RH HTML; 8.0.2.208
The script at "Tools > Scripts > Word Count" says "Bad Argument GetTokenManager" and fails.
It broke while I had 8.0.1, or maybe while I had 8.0.0.
Can I fix this?

HI,
if the script is working for a dummy project, it means the script is working fine, and there is some issue when we run this script in your project.
Please open script pod and right click on the word count.jsx file and select edit option. this will open the word count script in Extendscript editor (or notepad).
Search for the following line in the script file var tknmgr = RoboHelp.getTokenManager (filepath);
and add the following statement before this line. msg(filepath);
so the new code looks like
msg(filepath);
var tknmgr = RoboHelp.getTokenManager (filepath);
Now save this file and again run the script file from RoboHelp 8 by right click and run.
this will show the messages in the output view, as to which topic it is trying to open using the token manager and we can get to know where the script is breaking.
it will print the file path of the topic which is causing the problem, Please see if you can open that topic from project manager in your Project or not.
Do let me know the log in the output view, after you have modified the script file and run it again.
-Praful

Word Count Discrepancy

I am editing a document in Pages for iOS (iPad) but am getting a discrepancy in word count when compared to the same document in Word 2010. Both documents are unaltered from when I opened them (from an email), but Pages tells me it's 1,130 whereas Word is giving me 1,045. Any ideas why?

Interesting Quesion:)
In theory, the Character Count in Windows Explorer gets the same result as the Characters(no spaces) value in Word Count.
However, the operational definitions of how to count the words can occur (namely, what "counts as" a word, and which words "don't count" toward the total) is similar but different. Different word counting programs may give varying results, depending
on the text segmentation rule details, and on whether words outside the main text (such as footnotes, endnotes, or hidden text) are counted.
In your story, the Character count in Windows Explorer(28877) is lower than the result in Word count (27286). It's difficult for me to figure out the root exactly duo to:
the space (any of various whitespace characters, such as a "regular" word space, an em space, or a tab character)
hyphen or a slash
Asian/Non-Asian words.
All of them above might be the factors in this case. Hope the info light you.
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Selective word count

Hey folks,
Does anyone know if it's possible to have Pages do a word count of part of a document - i.e. if I select a block of text from the whole, can I find out the word count of just that block without having to cut and paste?
Thanks
MacBook 13" 1.83GHz Mac OS X (10.4.7) 1 Gb, 60 Gb HD

No, unfortunately. But you can install Devon Technologies free WordService product to get statistics about selected text.
<http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.html>
Please do send Apple feedback that you'd like this added to Pages 3.
<http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html>
Cheers.
Dale

Adapting My Word Counter Program to also Search and Replace

Hi,
I recently completed a word counter program for a school assignment. It reads in a file name from the command line and prints the contents to the screen before counting the number of words. i now want to try and adapt this program to also search for and replace a word specified by the user and print the document back to the creen with the changes. it would work something like this:
java SearchReplaceApp test.txt
This is a test
This is a test
This is a Test
This is a Test
This file contains 16 words
Search for?: test
Replace with?: Test
This is a Test
This is a Test
This is a Test
This is a Test
Search for?:
etc..........
I was planning on using the replaceAll method and obviously i would neeed some kind of loop structure (probably a do/while loop) but i dont really know how to implement this in this scenario.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. NEWBIE ALERT!!!!!! im afraid as i have very little programming experience, so please keep it as simple as possible please.
maybe i'll give you a hug or something

Just to make it easier for you guys to understand heres the code i have for my word counter, which i have now renamed SearchReplaceApp:
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
class SearchReplaceApp
            public static InputStreamReader input =
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            public static BufferedReader keyboardInput =
                                   new BufferedReader(input);
            public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
                                  FileReader file = new FileReader(args[0]);
                                  BufferedReader MyFile = new BufferedReader(file);
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                                            int NumberOfTokens = 0;
                                            int NumberOfWords = 0;
           TokenizeMe = new StringTokenizer(MyFile.readLine());
           NumberOfTokens = TokenizeMe.countTokens();
           while (NumberOfTokens != 0)
                                    for (int WordsInLine=1; WordsInLine<=NumberOfTokens;
                                                                    WordsInLine++)
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                                    System.out.println();
                                    NumberOfWords += NumberOfTokens;
                                    String line = MyFile.readLine();
                                    if (line==null) break;
                                   TokenizeMe = new StringTokenizer(line);
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             System.out.println("\nThis file contains " + NumberOfWords + " words");
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}as you can see it does use a tokenizer, i would ideally like to be able to replace parts of words as well as whole words and also prompt for another search word after displaying the updated file e.g.
This is a test
Search for?: is
Replace with?: was
Thwas was a test
Search for?:
im really quite stuck on this so suggestions of any kind are welcome
thanks

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)

After upgrading to Yosemite I cannot share my pages document by mail as a word format - HELP please!!!

After upgrading to Yosemite I cannot share my pages document by mail as a word format - HELP please!!!

You don't need to go to the App Store to for support for Steam and Minecraft. You need to go to their website(s).
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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.
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