[Solved+Issue] 'Live' Word Counter?

[Villeroy]

Then write something that fits your needs.

[winterleaf]

What do you mean? I thought I'd already described pretty clearly what I was looking for.
I'm not a developer, I can't design what I am looking for myself. I only wanted to know if such an extension existed, but it looks like it doesn't.

[RoryOF]

Break your file into two at the insertion point; do your writing at the end of file 1 and the statusbar wordcounter will give you the count from start of file 1 to the current insertion point, which is what you want. When finished, place cursor at end of file 1 and /insert /File <file2>

Edit: You could automatically combine the two files using the Master Document process.

[winterleaf]

Oh, I see. OK... but that's not very convenient to a writer who is in the process of re-editing their novel.
I think I'll just use a different word processor in the meantime. Thanks anyway.

[RoryOF]

I am able to edit/format my works without needing a wordcount from the beginning to the current editing point. Are you needing this to keep track of page breaks? If so, there are better ways to manage these in Writer.

[winterleaf]

No, that's not it. Never mind the reason. It's just something I need to be able to do and I can't do it in OO so I'll move on for now.