Word count of all text with particular style?

rjwilmsi · General User Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 32

I've recently been learning about the use of styles in openoffice.org 2.0.1 and want to know if I can somehow get a word count for all text with a particular style (e.g. word count of all text with 'Text Body' paragraph style). The standard word count feature just counts the whole document, and I want to know how many words I've written for a fixed-length essay (so exclude quotations, headers, contents table etc.). Is this possible?

Bhikkhu Pesala · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:52 am Post subject:

Yes. First do your word count including all text, then modify your body text style with character attribute "hidden." Repeat the word count and subtract the difference.
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rjwilmsi · General User Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 32

Thanks for that tip. I suppose it's a work around rather than an easy way – I just need to set up an 'essay body' character style and apply it appropriately. Easier than selecting text and adding up the numbers repeatedly though.

JohnV · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:28 am Post subject:

Another approach is to do Find & Replace and search for you style with Find All. Then, while the different sections are still selected, do Tools > Word Count.