Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 89040
word count does not count form fields correctly
Last modified: 2013-01-29 21:42:28 UTC
Having a look at this test document http://www.bose.res.in/Admission/Bose%20PG.doc as mentioned in bug 80815, for this file there is a large delta in terms of word count between MS Word and OpenOffice. This particular file is full of form fields in tables, which probably accounts for the large difference in word count. Odd spot: trying to get word count for this file in Word 2003 was not possible -- the word count feature was greyed out, and could not be selected. Weird.
Reassigned to SBA.
Created attachment 53801 [details] test document
Tested with Dev300_m24, OOo 2.4.1 on Kubuntu 6.06 and Word Viewer (On VMware) Word counts : m24 : 1618 (the same with BEB300_m3). 2.4.1 : 1625 Word Viewer : 2017 Characters counts : m24 : 11492 2.4.1 : 11096 Word Viewer : 11499
I confirm difference in words and characters counts between versions 2 and 3 of OOo and MS-WordViewer.