Actually Tony didn't say it was good. He said UK usage without the period
is good and U.S. usage with the period (in the U.S.) is normal. That
clarified, I really don't know what point Jezebel was trying to make.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
"Good" in this case can be defined as "what you're used to." "Mr." is
an abbreviation; as such, we USians believe it needs a period.


"Jezebel" wrote in message
...
It might be normal. That doesn't make it good.


"Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message
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I think this is a difference in English vs.American usage. In UK
English Mr (without the full stop) is good; in US English Mr. (with
the period) is normal.

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Enjoy,
Tony


"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
...
While slightly off subject, what is superfluous about the period
following
"Mr" in my example? Are you saying that it isn't necessary and
that simply Mr will do or is it tied to your greater aversion to
abbreviations in general and that Mister should be used in the
example to avoid confusion?

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Jezebel wrote:
Word's estimate of sentences is necessarily a somewhat fuzzy
piece of logic; abbreviations -- or superfluous periods, as in
your example -- are always going to be problematic.


"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
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That doesn't work so well Jezebel.

Consider:

How did Mr. Smith get to Washington?

That is not two sentences.

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Jezebel wrote:
It is VBA, but all it takes in a macro is

msgbox("Sentences = " & activedocument.Sentences.Count)




"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I suspected this might be available through the readability
statistics, but (short of VBA) there's no way to access those
without checking grammar, which is a huge PITA.

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"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
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Look at readability statistics. ToolsOptionsSpelling and
Grammar and check Show readability statistics. Consider the
following: Did Mr. Smith go to Washington? I don't know Mrs.
Jones;
you will
have to
ask Mr. Smith.


ToolsSpelling and Grammar.

Words: 18
Characters: 71
Paragraphs: 1
Sentences: 2



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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Does it? Word Count counts pages, words, characters (with and
without spaces), paragraphs, and lines, but not sentences.
But if Word tried to
count sentences, most users would not be satisfied because it
would have to
count anything ending in a period as a sentence, which is
what
it
does when
you use Ctrl+click to select a sentence, and this includes
the periods after
abbreviations.


"garfield-n-odie"
wrote
in message
...
This feature already exists within Word, so there is no need
for
you to suggest it to Microsoft.

Connor wrote:

When i do my weekly composition for seventh grade it has
to be a minimum
of
fifteen sentences. If the word count feature could count
sentences as
well, I
would not have to do it manually.

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