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

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24 Euros - you can't buy an abacus for that price these days
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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 !
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here Preview under 10.5
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