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[Solved] Word Count includes certain symbols
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 1:28 am
by 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?
Re: Word Count
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 4:36 am
by acknak
Re: Word Count
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 4:50 am
by MissyM
Ah! So I can just turn off the Custom Quotes. Excellent. I don't have much use of them anyway.
Re: Word Count
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 4:56 am
by 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.
Re: Word Count
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 5:26 am
by 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.