Yep, sure can.
Use an apple script.
I've got some posted on my softcon mac pages at
http://www.softcon.com/mac/
There's scripts there for word count, line count and (I think)
paragraph counts too).
hth.
Ok, strike that. I went to look, and the scripts are missing. (sorry
about that) I'll put them back asap.
But, the script you want is this one.
** cut here**
tell application "TextEdit"
count words of document 1
end tell
** cut here **
Simply paste this text into the apple script editor, and click run.
That'll take the front document in text edit, and print out a word
count for you in the output section of the script editor. The one I
had on softcon used a dialog to give the information, so it was
slightly more user friendly, but since it's missing, I guess it
doesn't really matter how user friendly it was now does it. :)
I'll get that fixed.
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