Word count in paragraph - Open Office,
 

Hey,

Does anyone know if there is a way to do a word count in Open Office 1.0.[2|3] on a paragraph, rather than on the whole document. Ideally it may just be a selected part of the text.

Thanks in advance...

Hey :)

lol

hit enter too soon wapcaplet, you beat me before I had the chance to edit ;-)

Heh, sorry, couldn't resist :)

I don't think there is any way to do that... though I could be mistaken.

yeah I am not too hopeful but it is the only negative in an otherwise fairly seamless transition from M$_Office to Open Office for my wife, maybe I will suggest it to the developers for an upcoming release.

you can't select and do a word count?

wierd, even Abiword has that. (I would know, I set it up for my sister.)

There is no word count per se just a statistics page that gives an overall word count

oh on a side nite does abi word have compatibility with M$_Office files? maybe that is an alternative if it does.

yes, it does.

I'm not sure how advanced this compatibility needs to be (or is), but you can see if it fits your needs.

ok cool, thanks, i will fire it up and have a look

http://www.deadmule.com/linux

somewhere on here it talks about it