[Solved] Count how many times a word is used

[kanuski]

This is a difficult topic to research. I am just wondering if there is a built-in method for counting the number of times a word occurs in a document. The only way I have found is to find and replace the word with itself. This gets messy when there are different styles being used.

[FJCC]

If you do a Find All with Find & Replace, you can then select Tools -> Word Count to see the number of words in the current selection.

Using Find & Replace for this can be tricky. You have to consider plurals, possessives, tenses of verbs, and lots of other variations on what constitutes "a word".

[White Phoenix]

What if you have five hundred words to look for? Are HTML editors the only tools that has a word count feature? They do/did this to find key words for tagging web pages.

[RoryOF]

There is a extension to OpenOffice
https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/Linguist
that in its later versions was said to produce individual counts of all words in the file.

It has not been supported for some time, so may or may not work. Best to try this on a copy of any important file, not on an original file.

[White Phoenix]

It has not been supported for some time, so may or may not work. Best to try this on a copy of any important file, not on an original file.

I have multiple copies of the file I am using, so no problem there. Thanks for the tip, Rory.

[White Phoenix]

Oh wow! It works perfectly and is very fast!