[Solved] Word Count includes certain symbols

[MissyM]

I have recently noticed that Word Count is counting pairs of certain symbols (most significantly quotation marks) as words. If instead of typing, I insert quotation marks as Special Characters, they are not counted as words.

Is there anyway to have Writer not count certain symbols in Word Count?

[acknak]

It's a known problem; see http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/ ... =7&t=23253

[MissyM]

Ah! So I can just turn off the Custom Quotes. Excellent. I don't have much use of them anyway.

[acknak]

Sorry, I'm not sure that will help: (as I understand it) the problem is the typographic ("curly") quote characters: they will cause the same problem no matter if they are inserted manually or by the custom quotes feature.

[MissyM]

Well, when I turn Custom off, the quotes AREN'T typographic anymore, at least not in the fonts I most often use. So it's working just fine now.