Re: Word Counts

2015-07-15 Thread Jonathan Allen
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 06:47:28PM +, toki wrote: 2. from an academic point of view, if a word-count limit is set for a document, would you expect a best-effort count in OO to be an excuse for being a tad over in MS Word? What ruleset does that academic institution in

Word Counts

2015-07-14 Thread Jonathan Allen
Hello List, Can you help me with how the word counts are done? Not what makes up a word or a word-boundary - the 'help' told me that. Footnotes or endnotes. Are the words in footnotes counted? And does that differ for the whole document when nothing is selected, or when a block of text

Re: Word Counts

2015-07-14 Thread Jonathan Allen
Rory, When text is selected the footnotes for that block are not counted. Otherwise they are, and their number in the footnote seems to be counted as a word. But don't rely on the word count matching that of MS Word. Thank you so much for that. It's a good start. Two follow on questions: