Issue 117160 - Word Count NEEDS to be changed
Summary: Word Count NEEDS to be changed
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 89042
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: configuration (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.3
Hardware: All All
: P3 Normal (vote)
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Assignee: writerneedsconfirm
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2011-03-01 19:18 UTC by f_dawgy_dogg
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:44 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description f_dawgy_dogg 2011-03-01 19:18:21 UTC 
It has come to my attention that Open Office counts "smart quotes" as word in the word counting feature.  This led to confusion and it took me a while, plus an internet forum posting, to figure out why I kept going over my word limit for a project I was working on.  

On the internet forum, other writers complained because they do NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), a very popular international contest in which you have to write a novel in a month.  When they entered their text at the NaNoWriMo website, they were hugely discouraged to learn they were thousands of words short of the necessary word count.

By counting smart quotes as a word, it just leads to unnecessary confusion.  Please change it.  Thanks.
Comment 1 eric.savary 2011-03-01 20:35:21 UTC 
Doing a query here would have shown you that this issue is already known.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 89042 ***