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David_b Blue Pill
Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Paris, France
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:05 am Post subject: Live words/chars count ? |
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Hello everybody,
First post here so let me congrats you for the great work you are doing with NeoOffice
I am still in the process of comparing OOo/X11 and NeoOffice use on my computer, for personal and professional writing (so, I only use Writer).
I hope not to be off topic by posting this question here : I would like to know if it is possible to add a live words/characters count in the bottom "task" bar ? Or anywhere always visible?
I am a journalist and a technical writer with a constant need of this feature. That would be a most welcome add-on
No need to say I'll gladly support this work, if you think it's possible. _________________ David |
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sardisson Town Crier
Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Does anyone else recall having seen a "macro" that does this? I think I have, but can't find it now
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki |
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yoxi Cipher
Joined: Sep 07, 2004 Posts: 1799 Location: Dawlish, Devon
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:53 am Post subject: |
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I don't know of a macro for live count data - there is a fast (but not necessarily completely accurate) word/char count (and other useful macros) by Andrew Brown and there's a discussion here about its shortcomings and a slower more accurate alternative - but neither of these is a live count.
- padmavyuha (on the way out of the door...) |
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David_b Blue Pill
Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Paris, France
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
@sardisson:
Thxs for the idea. It made me think I'ld try to use a keyboard shorcut. It is not as convenient as a real live counter, but better than nothing
If anyone is interested here is where one can set a shortcut to the 'statistics' (Sorry, screenshot is not in English, as I do use a French version of Neo )
It must be located somewhere like Tools->Personnalize and in the keyboard tab
It will do, I guess. But I am still very interested in something more simple/convenient (like Bean's, for example)
@yoxi:
thxs, I'll have a look _________________ David |
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yoxi Cipher
Joined: Sep 07, 2004 Posts: 1799 Location: Dawlish, Devon
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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Just to clarify, the advantage of the two macros I mentioned above is that they can both count the words in a selection as well as in the entire document. I have Andrew's and the other one set up with the shortcuts cmd-K and cmd-shift-K so I can compare them...
Bonne chance...
- padmavyuha |
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