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         <title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Counting Words</title>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149686"><bookmark_value>words; counting in text</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>number of words</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>documents; number of words/characters</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>text; number of words/characters</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>characters; counting</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>number of characters</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>counting words</bookmark_value>
      <bookmark_value>word counts</bookmark_value>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN105D1" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">Word count is shown in the status bar, and is kept up to date as you edit.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106D1" role="listitem" l10n="NEW">If you want to count only some text of your document, select the text.</paragraph>
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            <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3149821" role="listitem" l10n="CHG" oldref="5">To display extended statistics such as character count, double click the word count in the status bar, or choose <emph>Tools - Word Count</emph>.</paragraph>
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         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="hd_id1116200901133957" role="heading" level="2" l10n="NEW">How does %PRODUCTNAME count words?</paragraph>
         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1116200901133998" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">In general, every string of characters between two spaces is a word. Tabs, line breaks, and paragraph breaks are word limits, too.</paragraph>
         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id1116200901133985" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">Words with dashes or always visible hyphens, as in plug-in, add-on, user/config, are counted as one word each.</paragraph>
         <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id111620090113399" role="paragraph" l10n="NEW">The words can be a mix of letters, numbers, and special characters. So the following text counts as four words: abc123 1.23 "$" http://www.example.com.</paragraph>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_idN106E2" role="tip" l10n="NEW">To get some more statistics about the document, choose <emph>File - Properties - Statistics</emph>.</paragraph>
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      <paragraph xml-lang="en-US" id="par_id3147418" role="paragraph" l10n="U" oldref="4"><link href="text/shared/01/01100400.xhp" name="File - Properties - Statistics">File - Properties - Statistics</link></paragraph>
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