Word Count not working

[bella01]

Hi all

I've just done a search on here, and it seems this issue has come up before.

I'm a newbie to NeoOffice. I've only been using it for a couple of weeks. I'm using OSX Tiger, 10.4.11, and the latest patch.

The word count feature is doing what someone mentioned at least a year ago - just not responding to changes in the word count. It's marginally better if you get it to count words in a selection, but not quite accurate. Sadly, I had to go back to MS Word to get an accurate count.

This for me could be a dealbreaker, as I need a word count that doesn't involve faffing about. And a live count showing at the bottom of the window would be perfect.

thanks for any hints

bella01

[rpatrick]

Interesting, it works ok to me - it's never more than two or three words different in Word to me.

The only thing for me is that Neo does not have "including footnotes" and "excluding footnotes" feature, but i just highlight the text and this has the same effect.

Richard

edit - I just had a quick play and occasionally my selected text word count is higher than my total word count! I wonder how this is possible!

[bella01]

Hmm. I'm wondering if its accuracy is something to do with document type. I've been using .doc, but yesterday was using .odt, and it seemed to be behaving a bit better...