Counting your words

[blozo]

Does anyone know how to make MS Word give you a running word count? Or at least tell you the total when you're finished?

 

[SimonDoom]

The word count appears in the bottom left corner of the screen.

 

[blozo]

The word count appears in the bottom left corner of the screen.

I feel so stupid.

 

[TxRad]

Not on mine. You have to click on the tools icon and select word count.

 

[Kantarii]

If I start counting words, I end up counting sheep. Kant

 

[SimonDoom]

I feel so stupid.

The good thing about asking a question is you'll be a little less stupid once you get your answer. So never hesitate, especially at a place like this.

 

[vanmyers86]

The good thing about asking a question is you'll be a little less stupid once you get your answer. So never hesitate, especially at a place like this.

Some of us have infinite reserves of stupid to fall back on! I personally pride myself on my ability to find brand new mistakes to make. It keeps life interesting.

I agree with Simon. If you don't ask, you never learn.

 

[SimonDoom]

Some of us have infinite reserves of stupid to fall back on! I personally pride myself on my ability to find brand new mistakes to make. It keeps life interesting.

I agree with Simon. If you don't ask, you never learn.

Oh absolutely. One way in which I've gained in knowledge over the course of my life is in my knowledge of how stupid I am. I used to think I knew all sorts of things. It makes me laugh to think of my younger self.

 

[yukonnights]

Oh absolutely. One way in which I've gained in knowledge over the course of my life is in my knowledge of how stupid I am. I used to think I knew all sorts of things. It makes me laugh to think of my younger self.

Laughing at one's younger self is normal...I'm tending to laugh more at my older self...which is starting to worry me

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Wisdom is the ability to avoid making mistakes.
Wisdom comes from experience.
Which, of course, consists mainly of making mistakes...

 

[gordo12]

Not on mine. You have to click on the tools icon and select word count.

You can also highlight a section and do the tool thing above to get a partial count

 

[vanmyers86]

Oh absolutely. One way in which I've gained in knowledge over the course of my life is in my knowledge of how stupid I am. I used to think I knew all sorts of things. It makes me laugh to think of my younger self.

When I was a child, I thought there was a magical age I would someday reach at which time I would know and understand everything. I am still waiting.

 

[KeithD]

When I was a child, I thought there was a magical age I would someday reach at which time I would know and understand everything. I am still waiting.

At Lit., it's 18, which is also the minimum age for participating at Literotica, so one hopes you've reached the age.

 

[SimonDoom]

When I was a child, I thought there was a magical age I would someday reach at which time I would know and understand everything. I am still waiting.

I like to think it reflects some modest accumulation of wisdom that I have after many years given up expecting this age to arrive.

 

[vanmyers86]

At Lit., it's 18, which is also the minimum age for participating at Literotica, so one hopes you've reached the age.

LOL. I have not been that tender age for some time now. I have not been twice that tender age for some time now.

But as they say, you're young only once, but you can ALWAYS be immature. That's what I strive for.

My standards may be low, but I do have them.

 

[Emirus]

A child puts their hand up in class to ask the teacher to clarify something and twenty others wish they had the courage to have done the same.

 

[Handley_Page]

Does anyone know how to make MS Word give you a running word count? Or at least tell you the total when you're finished?

The word count appears in the bottom left corner of the screen.

Which version of Word are you using ?

I feel so stupid.

Don't; you need a great many skills and they can take time.

Not on mine. You have to click on the tools icon and select word count.

On my version of Word, (2003), you go :
Tools
Word count.
A bit of playing with the toolbars and you can simply press a button for the answer.

 

[SimonDoom]

Which version of Word are you using ?



Don't; you need a great many skills and they can take time.
.

I'm using Word Office 365.

 

[TxRad]

I'm using Word Office 365.

Older versions of Word don't have the word count at the bottom.

 

[Hypoxia]

A successful author has an intern to handle menial tasks like word-counting, punctuation, etc.

 

[NotWise]

A successful author has an intern to handle menial tasks like word-counting, punctuation, etc.

Now I have this mental picture of someone leaning over TxRad's shoulder with a notepad in hand, counting each typed word. Revisions are a bitch. I wonder how much the position pays.

 

[Weird Harold]

Older versions of Word don't have the word count at the bottom.

Word 2010 does.

It's been a long time, but ISTR that Word 97 did also.

It is a feature that can be turned on and off, like much of Word's features. (Mine is on, and I like it on, so I've never tracked down how to turn it off.)

 

[TxRad]

Word 2010 does.

It's been a long time, but ISTR that Word 97 did also.

It is a feature that can be turned on and off, like much of Word's features. (Mine is on, and I like it on, so I've never tracked down how to turn it off.)

I ain't found a place to turn it on or off, so....

 

[Zeb_Carter]

At first Word 2007 didn't display the word count in the bottom ribbon, it didn't until I found a checkbox somewhere to have it displayed there...

If you right click on the bottom status bar there is a checkbox to display word count among a bunch of other things.