[Solved+Issue] Automatic displayed word count

[adammadigan]

Great software.

Uninstalled Microsoft Office to use this.

But there is no automatic word count. How you could make such a great product and not include such a basic feature is a "Wow" in my mind.

Face it : Most people download this to use the Writer program. Having to click on a word count icon that doesn't even show up unless it is manually installed is absurd.

How could all the other features be designed, installed and running and no one thought about a word counter?

Seriously?

In a program called Writer?

Holy cow.

[Greengiant224]

Welcome to the forum.

There is a word count feature. Tools>>Word Count, your total characters and words will be displayed in a dialog box.
If you select several words it will be counted also as a separate display, alongside the totals.

LO since version 4 displays the total characters/words count in the status bar at the bottom of the gui.

OpenOffice will only display the character/word count from the above mention path.
You can of course adulterate your version by customising the tool bar and adding it.
There is also an old word count extension which does the same thing.

Personally, I have never needed nor bothered with such features.

Hope this helps.....

Greengiant224

[Hagar Delest]

See also: [Solved+Issue] No visible word count in OOo Writer. (Issue 41454)

Please add '[Solved]' at beginning of your first post title (edit button) if your issue has been fixed.

[ronaldopenoffice]

Welcome to the forum.

There is a word count feature. Tools>>Word Count, your total characters and words will be displayed in a dialog box.
If you select several words it will be counted also as a separate display, alongside the totals.

LO since version 4 displays the total characters/words count in the status bar at the bottom of the gui.

OpenOffice will only display the character/word count from the above mention path.
You can of course adulterate your version by customising the tool bar and adding it.
There is also an old word count extension which does the same thing.

Personally, I have never needed nor bothered with such features.

Hope this helps.....

Greengiant224

I am someone that IS interested in that feature however. Could you please tell me about that mentioned extention or tell me (have spent far too much time trying already with no success) how to customize a tool bar to display the TOTAL DOCUMENT word count ALL of the time. I DO REALLY need it.

[ronaldopenoffice]

Welcome to the forum.

There is a word count feature. Tools>>Word Count, your total characters and words will be displayed in a dialog box.
If you select several words it will be counted also as a separate display, alongside the totals.

LO since version 4 displays the total characters/words count in the status bar at the bottom of the gui.

OpenOffice will only display the character/word count from the above mention path.
You can of course adulterate your version by customising the tool bar and adding it.
There is also an old word count extension which does the same thing.

Personally, I have never needed nor bothered with such features.

Hope this helps.....

Greengiant224

Sent a message about getting full time word count display.

Would be nice if you could email me a response as I am busy writing and do not expect to log back in for months!! I would like to have this functionality as soon as possible, please.
Ron

[John_Ha]

I would like to have this functionality as soon as possible

See OO.o Live Word Count at https://bitbucket.org/yawaramin/oo.o-li ... /wiki/Home. It says:

What It Does

The macro, when run, displays a little floating window on top of your Writer document with a continuously-updating word count. Instants after you type something, you see an updated count.

[Hagar Delest]

For the record, some update with an extension created for that: [Solved and Issue] Add Word Count to the Status Bar.

[Iemanjá]

I feel you. I second you. Eleven years after your post.

I have recently returned to OpenOffice when I literally could not afford Microsoft Office. I had recently resigned from a working-class job to pursue a decades-old dream of being a (full-time) scholar (who makes a living from her work). I did not have the money for Microsoft's monthly subscription. Nor did I have the time for the company's disruptive and incessant in-app advertising for their inane plug-ins. The last couple of months using OpenOffice has been a love affair. So simple, so useful, so efficient, so INTUITIVE. And no distractions from my work, or nefarious schemes to ingest and sell my personal data.

I have very recently landed a dream job as a staff researcher at a prestigious research institution. I now have access to all the productivity software I could ever want or need. Continuing to use, and love, OpenOffice Writer et al.

That said, easy-to-implement word and character count in status bar would be great feature in next build, instead of the ambitious but apparently unstable plug-ins community-members have been offering. Developers, are you listening?

Keep up the great work you are doing.

Enterprising Dreamer in North Carolina

[JeJe]

Word and character count in status bar is implemented in LibreOffice

[LastUnicorn]

You might find LibreOffice more to your liking. There are several good reasons for making the switch anyway, some of which are mentioned here: [Tutorial] Considering a Switch from OpenOffice to LibreOffice? Some Useful Information

[RoryOF]

There is a Word Count extension at
https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/pr ... controller
which puts a word count in the Status Bar of Writer.

Ignore the warning message at the download site - it works well.
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