Hello Jamie, When you find the Word Count, you’ll see that it’s a button and clicking it will give you other options such as Character count. You find the Word Count button to the right of the document layout area.
Cheers, Anne > On 12 Feb 2015, at 21:34, Jamie Pauls <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, Anne and all, > > After closing Pages and relaunching, I am now able to see the word count > plain as day. Before, I was looking at a Word document that I had brought > into Pages, and I was seeing a lot of information that appeared very > graphical in nature. Something about rectangles and placeholders. Not sure > what was going on there, but after relaunching Pages, I can easily find the > word count in a practice document I created plus the original Word file I was > playing with. Just thought I’d better write back and let you know that I was > having better luck than when I last spoke. Thanks for the help. > > Take care and have a great day. > Jamie Pauls > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > >> On Feb 12, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hello Jamie, >> >> To get the number of words, characters, paragraphs, etc in Pages, just go to >> the View menu and down to Show Word Count. It appears as a menu button and >> pressing VO-Space on it will give you the other options. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >>> On 12 Feb 2015, at 16:56, Jamie Pauls <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello, list members, >>> >>> I need to get the word count on a document I am writing using the latest >>> version of Pages. An article I read said to use the inspector, but I’m >>> still not finding what I am looking for. Has anyone written a script for >>> this? It seems like it might be a good candidate, but I’m not the guy to do >>> it, I don’t think. Regardless of the method, an explanation of how to get a >>> word count in a document would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the help. >>> >>> Take care and have a great day. >>> Jamie Pauls >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
