I do a lot of my writing in a DTP package on a rather obscure operating system - purely because it is a package that I have used for many years and am very familiar with. Often, though, I need to share my work with third parties, which means transferring my work, using text files, into OOo, formatting, and saving out in a standard format (depending on the intended recipient). So far so good.
What I have noticed, though, is that if I do a word count in my DTP package, and then in OOo, the results come out differently. At first I thought that was because the two programs were handling, for example, hyphenated words, differently. But a little investigation has shown this not to be the case. Try this: Turn off 'Custom Quotes' in Tools>Autocorrect, and type: 'word' "word" (with the quotes) Now turn on custom quotes, and repeat the exercise. Now highlight each word in turn and do a word count. With custom quotes turned off, the word count is, as expected, one in each case. However, with custom quotes turned on, the word count in each case becomes two. This applies also to a sentence between custom quotes - one extra word is added to the word count. This can, of course, add a lot of notional extra words to a piece of work containing dialogue, for example. As I write short stories, usually containing dialogue, for competitions where word counts are important, this is not just a trivial curiosity! Feature or bug? Open Office 3.2.0 on Windows XP. R. -- Richard Travers [email protected] Truro, Cornwall --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
