On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Richard Travers <ri...@uwclub.net> wrote: > I do a lot of my writing in a DTP package on a rather obscure operating > system - purely because it is a package that I have used for many years and > am very familiar with. Often, though, I need to share my work with third > parties, which means transferring my work, using text files, into OOo, > formatting, and saving out in a standard format (depending on the intended > recipient). So far so good. > > What I have noticed, though, is that if I do a word count in my DTP package, > and then in OOo, the results come out differently. At first I thought that > was because the two programs were handling, for example, hyphenated words, > differently. But a little investigation has shown this not to be the case. > > Try this: > > Turn off 'Custom Quotes' in Tools>Autocorrect, and type: > > 'word' > "word" > (with the quotes) > > Now turn on custom quotes, and repeat the exercise. > > Now highlight each word in turn and do a word count. With custom quotes > turned off, the word count is, as expected, one in each case. However, with > custom quotes turned on, the word count in each case becomes two. > > This applies also to a sentence between custom quotes - one extra word is > added to the word count. This can, of course, add a lot of notional extra > words to a piece of work containing dialogue, for example. > > As I write short stories, usually containing dialogue, for competitions > where word counts are important, this is not just a trivial curiosity! > > Feature or bug? > > Open Office 3.2.0 on Windows XP.
Interesting. I would think definitely a bug. If someone could try this in the latest release (3.2.1) to confirm, then we should lodge a bug request for the developers to review. Good pickup. /paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
