Help

[lunschen]

Does anyone know how to count words in TextEdit (Apple)?
I am writing the fanfic for the camping challenge (or I try to...) but I have no idea how to count the words and I am too lazy to do this by myself

Help, pleeeeaaaaaaseeeee!

Comments

[pyewacket-1975.livejournal.com]

Hmm..I looked it up and I don't think you can. Do you have Word? Just use that. It'll count the words.
Although I did a search and someone in a forum said this..don't know if it'll help or not.

Bundles > Text > Statistics for (selection or document, depending on what's highlighted).

Or Control + Shift + N.

And if that doesn't work, depending on how you format, for me, a 1000-1500 word story is about 3 pages with a size 14 text and narrow margins.

[pyewacket-1975.livejournal.com]

Upon further investigation, I found this link
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/050710-add-a-word-count-tool-to.html

Hope it helps!

[lunschen.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your help!

I googled a lot, too but somehow nothing is helping. I guess I try to install word on my laptop (hope that works...) because this really sucks!

[pyewacket-1975.livejournal.com]

I've never used anything but Word. Don't worry about the word count so much. We just don't want stories that are too long. If you're a few words over, nobody is gonna read you the riot act :P

[lunschen.livejournal.com]

Are 1000 words too much okay? ;-)

I was annoying my little bro and it helped! He searched in the internet and there´s really a programm which counts words if you copy your text inside!

Have only 300 or so words (but far from finished) and 10 times the word fucking in my story... Sounds sick.... Maybe I write a different one lol

[pyewacket-1975.livejournal.com]

max is 1500 words so yeah you're good to go. As I said, it's not a huge deal, I just thought there should be some kind of limit so the stories wouldn't be too long in the event a lot of stories pop up. I honestly hate reading one-shots that are much longer than that. It's hard for some people to have time to read a 5000 word one-shot, ya know? haha.

[sam-doc.livejournal.com]

Oh I know something that works!

You can't do a word count but: open the Appe Script Editor (/Applications/AppleScript/)

and post this code into it:
tell application "TextEdit"
count words of document 1
end tell

and press enter and "run"

worked for me I just tried it out! :)

[lunschen.livejournal.com]

Wow thank you! Really works!!!!

[sam-doc.livejournal.com]

You are welcome. :) Always glad to help another apple friend :)

[pyewacket-1975.livejournal.com]

*sniff* I used to be an apple friend. Chris corrupted me! I do have an iphone tho...does that count?? ;)

[sam-doc.livejournal.com]

Oh of course twin ;) And I love all my friends, apple or not :P

[pyewacket-1975.livejournal.com]

YAY :)

[lunschen.livejournal.com]

Awww, I am glad that we all are happy friends again!