To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=102135 Issue #|102135 Summary|OO Word Count Radically Different than MS Word Component|Word processor Version|OOo 3.0.1 Platform|PC URL| OS/Version|Windows XP Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P2 Subcomponent|editing Assigned to|writerneedsconfirm Reported by|seahunter
------- Additional comments from [email protected] Fri May 22 11:36:04 +0000 2009 ------- I know this has been discussed before by user foobard, but on discovering this problem this morning for the first time, as a professional writer, I'm very upset that OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 counts words differently than MS Word, and the radical difference doesn't seem to have been fixed at least as of OOo 3.0.1. Perhaps this problem has been fixed with the current release, but I haven't installed the current release yet because, near the end of a project, I'm wary of doing any tinkering with my computer. I wrote a rather long, several hundred page project, with a set word limit. Luckily, OOo word count is lower than Word, or I'd be in a real panic this morning. But as it is, OOo's word count is about 10,000 words less than Word's word count. Until this morning, I never even thought that OOo would count words differently than Word. As a non-programmer, I just figured a word was a word was a word. As a professional writer, having an accurate word count is important. If OOo counts words differently than MS Word, that's fine with me. But I'd like to know the exact criteria that OOo uses to count words, so that I can at least tell my editor the criteria that has been used to count words. I cannot find any documentation anywhere on the OOo website that describes the criteria used to count words in writer. For me and other professional writers, having an accurate word count that matches as closely as possible the industry standard (which unfortunately is MS Word) is very important and is a P1 issue. At the very least, we need to know what standard is used specifically, in non-technical terms, so that we can explain it to an editor. Otherwise, this issue is an app killer for us and I won't be able to use OOo again even though I love it so much more than Word. I would attach files as examples, but I am not allowed. As an example, I have discovered that Word 2007 counts things like 975-976 as one word, while OOo 3.0.1 counts it as two words. Furthermore, I am using endnotes, page numbering, and the Chicago Style for editing and formatting stuff. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
