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Word Count
I am using Word 2007 Beta.
Is it possible to get the "Sentence count" ? (The number of sentences) Thank you |
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Would counting the number of periods (full stops) give you this information?
Depends if you have used any abbreviations and punctuated them. Hope this helps. I haven't tried 2007 yet. -- Rae Drysdale "Jorge Bravo" wrote: I am using Word 2007 Beta. Is it possible to get the "Sentence count" ? (The number of sentences) Thank you |
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Well, I read the following in:
http://process.umn.edu/groups/ppd/do...iting_Tips.cfm but can't see it in 2007. Use Microsoft Word - Tools - Word Count for items 1 and 2 below. 1. Count the number of words in the sample 148 2. Count the number of sentences 13 3. Count the number of big words (3 or more syllables) 33 4. Calculate the average sentence length. Divide the number of sentences into the number of words 148/13 = 11 5. Calculate the percentage of big words. Divide the number of words into the number of big words 33/148=22% 6. Add the avg sentence length to the % of big words 11 + 22 = 33 7. Multiply the result by .4 33 x .4 = Fog Index 13.2 Fog Index - Other Tools Under the TOOLS Menu, Microsoft Word contains a word counter, grammar checker and thesaurus you can use to help simplify your writing style. The grammar checker doesn't use the Fog Index. It uses three Flesch tools to analyze style: 1. Flesch Reading Ease (100 = easiest, 70-80 = average) 2. Flesch Grade Level (Assigns a grade level reader must have to understand your writing, 6 = average) 3. Flesch Kincaid (Another formula for determining reader grade level) "Rae Drysdale" escreveu na mensagem ... Would counting the number of periods (full stops) give you this information? Depends if you have used any abbreviations and punctuated them. Hope this helps. I haven't tried 2007 yet. -- Rae Drysdale "Jorge Bravo" wrote: I am using Word 2007 Beta. Is it possible to get the "Sentence count" ? (The number of sentences) Thank you |
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On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 18:31:44 +0200, "Jorge Bravo"
wrote: I am using Word 2007 Beta. Is it possible to get the "Sentence count" ? (The number of sentences) Thank you A count, of somewhat dubious accuracy, is available through the macro language. Open the macro editor (Alt+F11), display the Immediate window (Ctrl+G), paste in the following line, and press Enter. ?ActiveDocument.Sentences.Count The number will appear on the next line of the window. If you need to use this often, make this into a complete macro and assign it to a shortcut or QAT toolbar button: Sub SentenceCount() MsgBox ActiveDocument.Sentences.Count & " sentences" End Sub When I tried this on a small document with 9 sentences and one picture, the macro said there were 10 sentences. So if you have graphics in your document, don't take this count as accurate. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Great. Thanks.
"Jay Freedman" escreveu na mensagem ... On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 18:31:44 +0200, "Jorge Bravo" wrote: I am using Word 2007 Beta. Is it possible to get the "Sentence count" ? (The number of sentences) Thank you A count, of somewhat dubious accuracy, is available through the macro language. Open the macro editor (Alt+F11), display the Immediate window (Ctrl+G), paste in the following line, and press Enter. ?ActiveDocument.Sentences.Count The number will appear on the next line of the window. If you need to use this often, make this into a complete macro and assign it to a shortcut or QAT toolbar button: Sub SentenceCount() MsgBox ActiveDocument.Sentences.Count & " sentences" End Sub When I tried this on a small document with 9 sentences and one picture, the macro said there were 10 sentences. So if you have graphics in your document, don't take this count as accurate. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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For future reference:
- Go to Word Options Proofing, look in the grammar section, and check the option "Show readability statistics". When you spell-check the document, the number of sentences will appear among the other counts in the dialog. You may have to click the Recheck Document button to make Word discard previous spell check results in order to display the dialog. - Steps 3 through 7 in the cited material have to be done manually. Neither Word 2003 nor Word 2007 gives you any method for counting syllables. (Inside the Flesch computations it must count them or at least estimate them, but this isn't available externally.) - In Word 2003, the word count appears in the Tools Word Count dialog. In Word 2007, the same dialog appears in Review Proofing Word Count. For some reason, this dialog doesn't include the sentence count. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 19:08:58 +0200, "Jorge Bravo" wrote: Well, I read the following in: http://process.umn.edu/groups/ppd/do...iting_Tips.cfm but can't see it in 2007. Use Microsoft Word - Tools - Word Count for items 1 and 2 below. 1. Count the number of words in the sample 148 2. Count the number of sentences 13 3. Count the number of big words (3 or more syllables) 33 4. Calculate the average sentence length. Divide the number of sentences into the number of words 148/13 = 11 5. Calculate the percentage of big words. Divide the number of words into the number of big words 33/148=22% 6. Add the avg sentence length to the % of big words 11 + 22 = 33 7. Multiply the result by .4 33 x .4 = Fog Index 13.2 Fog Index - Other Tools Under the TOOLS Menu, Microsoft Word contains a word counter, grammar checker and thesaurus you can use to help simplify your writing style. The grammar checker doesn't use the Fog Index. It uses three Flesch tools to analyze style: 1. Flesch Reading Ease (100 = easiest, 70-80 = average) 2. Flesch Grade Level (Assigns a grade level reader must have to understand your writing, 6 = average) 3. Flesch Kincaid (Another formula for determining reader grade level) "Rae Drysdale" escreveu na mensagem ... Would counting the number of periods (full stops) give you this information? Depends if you have used any abbreviations and punctuated them. Hope this helps. I haven't tried 2007 yet. -- Rae Drysdale "Jorge Bravo" wrote: I am using Word 2007 Beta. Is it possible to get the "Sentence count" ? (The number of sentences) Thank you |
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Unless sentence count is really hooked into grammatical analysis, it can
really only be a count of text strings between terminal punctuation marks. Since these would (without grammatical analysis) include periods following abbreviations, I don't see how it could be very accurate. Given that the readability statistics claim to be based (at least in part) on number of words in a sentence, I assume there is some grammatical analysis involved (which is not involved in simple word/character counts). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... For future reference: - Go to Word Options Proofing, look in the grammar section, and check the option "Show readability statistics". When you spell-check the document, the number of sentences will appear among the other counts in the dialog. You may have to click the Recheck Document button to make Word discard previous spell check results in order to display the dialog. - Steps 3 through 7 in the cited material have to be done manually. Neither Word 2003 nor Word 2007 gives you any method for counting syllables. (Inside the Flesch computations it must count them or at least estimate them, but this isn't available externally.) - In Word 2003, the word count appears in the Tools Word Count dialog. In Word 2007, the same dialog appears in Review Proofing Word Count. For some reason, this dialog doesn't include the sentence count. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 19:08:58 +0200, "Jorge Bravo" wrote: Well, I read the following in: http://process.umn.edu/groups/ppd/do...iting_Tips.cfm but can't see it in 2007. Use Microsoft Word - Tools - Word Count for items 1 and 2 below. 1. Count the number of words in the sample 148 2. Count the number of sentences 13 3. Count the number of big words (3 or more syllables) 33 4. Calculate the average sentence length. Divide the number of sentences into the number of words 148/13 = 11 5. Calculate the percentage of big words. Divide the number of words into the number of big words 33/148=22% 6. Add the avg sentence length to the % of big words 11 + 22 = 33 7. Multiply the result by .4 33 x .4 = Fog Index 13.2 Fog Index - Other Tools Under the TOOLS Menu, Microsoft Word contains a word counter, grammar checker and thesaurus you can use to help simplify your writing style. The grammar checker doesn't use the Fog Index. It uses three Flesch tools to analyze style: 1. Flesch Reading Ease (100 = easiest, 70-80 = average) 2. Flesch Grade Level (Assigns a grade level reader must have to understand your writing, 6 = average) 3. Flesch Kincaid (Another formula for determining reader grade level) "Rae Drysdale" escreveu na mensagem ... Would counting the number of periods (full stops) give you this information? Depends if you have used any abbreviations and punctuated them. Hope this helps. I haven't tried 2007 yet. -- Rae Drysdale "Jorge Bravo" wrote: I am using Word 2007 Beta. Is it possible to get the "Sentence count" ? (The number of sentences) Thank you |
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Besides word and sentence count, you may probably be interested in estimating the readability and style of text in more deep way. The program called Textanz will calculate overall statistics and word/phrase frequencies from any content. Text can be copy-pasted from any application (including MS Word) for analysis. http://www.cro-code.com/textanz.jsp Jorge Bravo wrote: I am using Word 2007 Beta. Is it possible to get the "Sentence count" ? (The number of sentences) Thank you |
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Readability Statistics
Okay, what if you have checked "readability statistics" and they do not
show? I am using 2007 also, and have yet to have readability statistics show up after a Style & Grammar check. I do like the fact you can highlight a chunk of verbiage and see the word count at the bottom of the screen. -- jaartee Fellow user "Jay Freedman" wrote: For future reference: - Go to Word Options Proofing, look in the grammar section, and check the option "Show readability statistics". When you spell-check |
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I don't know. Word 2007 hasn't been around long enough to develop a
bag of tricks for fixing all the things that can go wrong (and it often isn't worth developing those tricks for a beta, because many of the problems will disappear in the final release). The usual scattershot techniques might work: try starting in safe mode; rename or delete normal.dotm; rebuild the Data key in the registry. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...peningWord.htm (the techniques there are good for more than just startup problems). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:14:02 -0700, jaartee wrote: Okay, what if you have checked "readability statistics" and they do not show? I am using 2007 also, and have yet to have readability statistics show up after a Style & Grammar check. I do like the fact you can highlight a chunk of verbiage and see the word count at the bottom of the screen. -- jaartee Fellow user "Jay Freedman" wrote: For future reference: - Go to Word Options Proofing, look in the grammar section, and check the option "Show readability statistics". When you spell-check -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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