Move your mouse down to the lower edge of your screen on the left. You should see the statistics pop up. You can customize what is shown in the Preferences.
Hello,
trying to determine if the character count took the spaces into account or not, I copied my text into Word and discovered there was a 30 character difference in the displayed figure… not much on total of 9800, but I wonder who's right!
I would be so glad to get rid of MSW.
Cheers
Joss
I'm not sure why the character count would not match. Spaces are taken into account by WriteRoom. WriteRooms character count is pretty simple, it just looks at the length of the backing string. But this means that it may not always be doing exactly what you expect. For instance if you have an attachment in your document (not that I recomend it, WriteRoom is really meant just for text) then that attachment will be counted as one character since that's how attachments are represented by the backing string. It may be that there are other cases (page breaks maybe) of characters that MSWord is not counting, but that WriteRoom is. Hope that helps.
ClintMacD - June 3, 2008 5:38 PM
Mr. Mullins:
Move your mouse down to the lower edge of your screen on the left. You should see the statistics pop up. You can customize what is shown in the Preferences.
Best wishes, Clint
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Michael Mullins - June 3, 2008 6:00 PM
Thanks Clint.
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Jocelyn Bleriot - June 5, 2008 10:26 AM
Hello, trying to determine if the character count took the spaces into account or not, I copied my text into Word and discovered there was a 30 character difference in the displayed figure… not much on total of 9800, but I wonder who's right! I would be so glad to get rid of MSW. Cheers Joss
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jesse - June 10, 2008 10:52 AM
I'm not sure why the character count would not match. Spaces are taken into account by WriteRoom. WriteRooms character count is pretty simple, it just looks at the length of the backing string. But this means that it may not always be doing exactly what you expect. For instance if you have an attachment in your document (not that I recomend it, WriteRoom is really meant just for text) then that attachment will be counted as one character since that's how attachments are represented by the backing string. It may be that there are other cases (page breaks maybe) of characters that MSWord is not counting, but that WriteRoom is. Hope that helps.
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Jocelyn Bleriot - June 11, 2008 7:56 AM
Thanks Jesse, it does help… and there is no attachment in my document. I really enjoy Writeroom. Joss
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