Fight Club Pub.

reply to post by TheWayISeeIt


have you tried word?
select extras counting words and it tells you characters with/without spaces!

reply to post by TheWayISeeIt


Are you using word?

If not, what are you using?

reply to post by budski


Word which gives me 'word count'...

EDIT TO ADD: Hey orange just saw your post -- I think it is that reveal thing. I am off to see if I can figure out what you mean. Thanks!

[edit on 19-12-2008 by TheWayISeeIt]

reply to post by TheWayISeeIt


Ask Semper or Ian. Both of them helped me out last time when I needed word count. They showed me something but I can't remember what it was. They'll know, though.

Also, what you can do is paste it into the text box on an ATS thread and see what your character count is.

[edit on 12/19/2008 by AshleyD]

reply to post by TheWayISeeIt


which also gives you character count

if you can remember the right menu.

reply to post by budski


right menu:

extras -> word count

than it tells you
statistics
pages:
words:
characters without spaces
characters with spaces
paragraphs
lines


another link from the short story forum:

www.wordcounter.com...

you have to insert your text

reply to post by budski


I newly am on Vista and whatever they have done to word is not an improvement IMO. All of the menu's are changed, tools relocated and parsed out all over the place, very different than the old Word.

I clicked on the area where the word count is now, but character count is not one of the options... but you guys are all stellar for trying to help me out with this. I have an 8k limit on the main site (and I really suck at math ) So I keep loading in parts of rthe post and trying to deduct and add ... arghhh

reply to post by orange-light


I don't know if it's a European/American thing or just different versions of Word, but I get character count by going to the Tools menu and selecting "Word Count"

A little box pops up with all the info - characters w/ spaces, characters w/o spaces, words, etc.

reply to post by orange-light


THAT'S the one.

Thnx OL

reply to post by orange-light


You're a lifesaver Orange, thanks so much! That is exactly what I was looking for... When this is all over i will go on a Vista quest and figure out where cc is now!

reply to post by americandingbat


i get that box too!

maybe it is a version thing and my word is german surely!


why can.t that guys in redmond just develop and don.t change everything when they renew it.





i really hate that

reply to post by TheWayISeeIt

you are welcome
:=
which word version do you got on vista?

my son got a pc with vista (me still stucks to my beloved MAC) and got word too, and since it is my profession to deal with such things i can do a research tomorrow and tell you, if you don.t mind!


edit spelling

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reply to post by orange-light


Word 2007 and they have done away with the Tools menu all together, and it seems character count as well. The link you gave me was for wordcount and tracking word usage frequency, so did not solve my issue.. darn.. I really didn't think this was going to be such a big deal.

Maybe Semper or Mem could temporarily extend my post count to 10k... I am only stressing about it as I have not dealt with overly long post being an issue before, but suspect I am may have to completely change my rebuttal statement in order to fit alloted space.

You could, very carefully, put it in the reply box on the debate thread and then lastpage-arrow out of the situation after seeing what the character count is?

Or you could dredge up an old debate to test post in?

reply to post by americandingbat


TYVM!! You get a gold star for most ingenious way to solve the problem, as I am pretty sure I have over written myself into a corner and am going to have to keep editing, rewriting, char. counting.... (and this was supposed to be fun )

And a sincere thanks you all for taking the time and having so much patience. I will now go quietly into my dark night...

reply to post by TheWayISeeIt


just don't go gently, 'kay?

Shush

They've left me alone for 5 minutes while they talk drunken nonsense.

oh wait

never mind

reply to post by budski


oh dear me
i have never heard about a "happier" visit!

when are they leaving? after new year?

seek asylum?

reply to post by orange-light


They're old friends - I couldn't turn them away.

As much as I wanted to.

They'll be gone as soon as the judge lifts the travel ban.

reply to post by budski


that explaines a lot,

you know that judges are sometimes very slow and it is christmas
who wants to work?


*hastes out of thread before bud can throw that book in his hand to her head*


ehm good night everybody

sweet dreams


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