Issue 42601 - Please make OpenOffice 2.0 word count meaningful
Summary: Please make OpenOffice 2.0 word count meaningful
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 14050
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: 680m77
Hardware: PC All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: requirements
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2005-02-12 07:44 UTC by punisher
Modified: 2005-10-10 00:59 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description punisher 2005-02-12 07:44:34 UTC 
OpenOffice 2.0 word count does not discriminate between words in the body of a
document and words in footnotes, endnotes, headers and footers.  Microsoft Word
does not count these, and I believe it is a better approach, as counting those
is misleading to someone writing a document that has lots of references a
verbose header/footer over many pages.

In fact Microsoft word has an option, in the word count dialog that pops up, to
toggle whether footnotes and endnotes are included or not.  However, Microsoft
Word absolutely does not include the headers and footers - at least not in Word
2000.

Thanks
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2005-02-14 08:07:41 UTC 
MRU->SBA: pls evaluate.
Comment 2 jack.warchold 2005-02-17 13:11:05 UTC 
confirmed. i will reassign this to requirements
Comment 3 sajer 2005-02-18 02:59:04 UTC 
This is not a new issue, many about the subject already exists and I think you 
guys also have a plan for an improved word count.

Please enhance the word count feature soon. I asked for improvements on the 
first day I tried OOo, years ago, YEARS! 

Some students at my university cannot use Writer for their assignments, their 
thesis or ANY of their work, because they may NOT count the words in foodnotes 
etc. What is worse is that by not including this feature in Writer, it is not 
clear to them whether Writer includes words from footsnotes etc. when it counts.

The word count feature in Word is rather impressing and it works perfectly for 
them. That is why I have not been able to convert a single of them to Writer.

You could improve the word count with a minimum of work and help the tens of 
thousands of academics that needs this feature and the clarification involved 
in it. 

After all, this feature has been present in MS Word for a decade! It feels kind 
of frustrating to wait for 2-3 years for a minor detail like this.
Comment 4 aziem 2005-10-10 00:59:03 UTC 
punisher: Thanks for your report.  Please continue to report any others.

Duplicate to issue 14050.  Related to issue 14410 and others.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 14050 ***
Comment 5 aziem 2005-10-10 00:59:39 UTC 
close