Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 50269
"Number of words" : Number of displayed words (word count) required
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:42:06 UTC
Words in page style footers are counted as whole document words, available in File: Properties: statistics, and in Tools: word count, even if this page style is not used. Cf. issue 50056 . SBA wrote: <<I don't regard this a defect. <<One may even consider this a feature, giving the Information: "You forgot to remove data from the document" or "You wasted time to write words that are not visible in the document".>> At the opposite, if you use the same page style in several pages (which is the raison d'être of page styles), the number of footer words is counted only once. Now, in many situations, the user is interessed in the number of DISPLAYED words of his document. Specially, publishers, teachers, academic rules and research organisations often limit the number of words. Hidden words don't matter. Repeated words are to be counted multiple times. So I suggest a count of displayed word would be added in document properties.
Cross-referenced words (Insert: Cross-reference: References= bookmarks, Format=Reference) are not counted either, though displayed. They should be included in the number of displayed words.
Created attachment 26847 [details] 4 displayed words, 3 words counted
SBA: I confirm this enhancement request. Put FME on c/c (because enhancing the word count feature already was in discussion and the given hints should be regarded in that context, too) Reassigned to requirements.
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