Jeffery: I found there is an open issue in regards to the usage of this feature and that it is not fixed. If you would go to the OpenOffice.org IssueZilla and vote for issue 70534, I did. The more votes, the higher on the list it moves and this tells the Word Processing team how many folks are affected. You will have to register for the site.
James McKenzie Mac OS X QA Test Lead (how did this get through?) American English release. Jeffrey Zygmont wrote: > Dan, > > Thank you for getting back to me. > > I also noticed that I can get the word-count feature in Tools to work by > entering a character. However, it does not seem to work consistently or > accurately. For example, when I was working this morning, initially, before > I began to revise a document that I had called up from memory, my word-count > totals for both "current selection" and "whole document" were 0 and 0 -- > obviously incorrect, since the document from memory ran for about a page and > a half. After I began to type, I received a "whole document" word-count of > 850 words. No matter how many words I added, the reading remained 850 words. > Then I highlighted a significant section of text and ran the word-count > feature. It told me that the "current selection" -- that is, the highlighted > area -- contained 899 words, while the "whole document" contained 850 words. > > I have noticed other, similar errors and lack of consistency in the operation > of the feature, which leads me to suspect that it is plagued by a significant > bug. > > I wish I could be more help, but I have absolutely no experience with code. > I am only a writer -- a literary writer, that is -- and while I write a good > deal about advanced technology (see my book MICROCHIP, available at > Amazon.com and in bookstores, for instance), unfortunately I cannot create > advanced tech. > > Thanks once again for your attention to my problem, > Jeff Z. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
