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Readability stats - the results
Hi all,
I've recently run Readability stats on a document to get an overall idea of the language complexity. The results seem reasonable but there's one thing that puzzles me: The document is 20,495 words. The Readability window gives me a word count of 358, characters 1639. I'm assuming, therefore, that these numbers represent *only* the paragraphs flagged as "fragmented", "passive voice", "long sentence", etc? So, I guess all I need is either confirmation of the above assumption or ... has the stats process gone wonky? SM |
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Readability stats - the results
G'Day Sharon,
You may be interested in the (free) Word AddIn called Bullfighter.... http://www.fightthebull.com/bullfighter.asp It has its amusing side, but the "Bull Index" delivers a solid assessment of the document that includes the Flesch Score. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Sharon M." wrote in message ... Hi all, I've recently run Readability stats on a document to get an overall idea of the language complexity. The results seem reasonable but there's one thing that puzzles me: The document is 20,495 words. The Readability window gives me a word count of 358, characters 1639. I'm assuming, therefore, that these numbers represent *only* the paragraphs flagged as "fragmented", "passive voice", "long sentence", etc? So, I guess all I need is either confirmation of the above assumption or ... has the stats process gone wonky? SM |
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Was text selected when you generated the stats? If so, then it reported only
the count of the text that was selected. It should give you a count of the entire document, otherwise, not just those sentences containing problems. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Sharon M." wrote in message ... Hi all, I've recently run Readability stats on a document to get an overall idea of the language complexity. The results seem reasonable but there's one thing that puzzles me: The document is 20,495 words. The Readability window gives me a word count of 358, characters 1639. I'm assuming, therefore, that these numbers represent *only* the paragraphs flagged as "fragmented", "passive voice", "long sentence", etc? So, I guess all I need is either confirmation of the above assumption or ... has the stats process gone wonky? SM |
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G'Day (again) Sharon,
Of course I missed out my answer to the QUESTION..... The statistics apply only to the most recent Language detected in the document. For me, I have "English (Australian)" as my default Language, but after (say) any copying and pasting, some sections of the Document may be set to "English (US)" - and the stats apply only to the last Language detected in the document. You need to Select All, set the Language to your taste and run the stats again. There may still be discrepancies owing to comments, text boxes, text marked to be 'skipped' etc - see: http://support.microsoft.com/Default...d=2530&sid=763 -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Pat Garard" apgarardATbigpondDOTnetDOTau wrote in message ... G'Day Sharon, You may be interested in the (free) Word AddIn called Bullfighter.... http://www.fightthebull.com/bullfighter.asp It has its amusing side, but the "Bull Index" delivers a solid assessment of the document that includes the Flesch Score. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Sharon M." wrote in message ... Hi all, I've recently run Readability stats on a document to get an overall idea of the language complexity. The results seem reasonable but there's one thing that puzzles me: The document is 20,495 words. The Readability window gives me a word count of 358, characters 1639. I'm assuming, therefore, that these numbers represent *only* the paragraphs flagged as "fragmented", "passive voice", "long sentence", etc? So, I guess all I need is either confirmation of the above assumption or ... has the stats process gone wonky? SM |
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MORE Readability stats - the results
G'day Pat,
Hoorah ... someone from the same continent! I'm on Queensland's "Beautiful one day, perfect the next" Sunshine Coast! ;-) Yep, it's quite possible that the language is the culprit. My template is UK (English) but who knows what others have been doing with the document. Thanks for the hint ... I'll go back and check. I'll have a look at the "fight the bull" thingy too! Thanks! Sharon. "Pat Garard" wrote: G'Day (again) Sharon, Of course I missed out my answer to the QUESTION..... The statistics apply only to the most recent Language detected in the document. For me, I have "English (Australian)" as my default Language, but after (say) any copying and pasting, some sections of the Document may be set to "English (US)" - and the stats apply only to the last Language detected in the document. You need to Select All, set the Language to your taste and run the stats again. There may still be discrepancies owing to comments, text boxes, text marked to be 'skipped' etc - see: http://support.microsoft.com/Default...d=2530&sid=763 -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Pat Garard" apgarardATbigpondDOTnetDOTau wrote in message ... G'Day Sharon, You may be interested in the (free) Word AddIn called Bullfighter.... http://www.fightthebull.com/bullfighter.asp It has its amusing side, but the "Bull Index" delivers a solid assessment of the document that includes the Flesch Score. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Sharon M." wrote in message ... Hi all, I've recently run Readability stats on a document to get an overall idea of the language complexity. The results seem reasonable but there's one thing that puzzles me: The document is 20,495 words. The Readability window gives me a word count of 358, characters 1639. I'm assuming, therefore, that these numbers represent *only* the paragraphs flagged as "fragmented", "passive voice", "long sentence", etc? So, I guess all I need is either confirmation of the above assumption or ... has the stats process gone wonky? SM |
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Hiya Herb,
Nope, nothing selected. I went right to the beginning and ran the readability test. (You'll recognize me from an earlier post to which you replied.) Because I couldn't just run the stats I'd gone through the whole document (p-a-i-n-f-u-l) stopping at each prompt and choosing "ignore rule" or "ignore once" ... perhaps this was a daft thing to do???????????? Sharon. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Was text selected when you generated the stats? If so, then it reported only the count of the text that was selected. It should give you a count of the entire document, otherwise, not just those sentences containing problems. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Sharon M." wrote in message ... Hi all, I've recently run Readability stats on a document to get an overall idea of the language complexity. The results seem reasonable but there's one thing that puzzles me: The document is 20,495 words. The Readability window gives me a word count of 358, characters 1639. I'm assuming, therefore, that these numbers represent *only* the paragraphs flagged as "fragmented", "passive voice", "long sentence", etc? So, I guess all I need is either confirmation of the above assumption or ... has the stats process gone wonky? SM |
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Just a thought, but if you don't really want the readability stats, but want
the word/character/line counts instead, you might consider Tools - Word count instead of going the grammar route. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "Sharon M." wrote in message ... Hiya Herb, Nope, nothing selected. I went right to the beginning and ran the readability test. (You'll recognize me from an earlier post to which you replied.) Because I couldn't just run the stats I'd gone through the whole document (p-a-i-n-f-u-l) stopping at each prompt and choosing "ignore rule" or "ignore once" ... perhaps this was a daft thing to do???????????? Sharon. "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Was text selected when you generated the stats? If so, then it reported only the count of the text that was selected. It should give you a count of the entire document, otherwise, not just those sentences containing problems. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP http://www.herbtyson.com Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. "Sharon M." wrote in message ... Hi all, I've recently run Readability stats on a document to get an overall idea of the language complexity. The results seem reasonable but there's one thing that puzzles me: The document is 20,495 words. The Readability window gives me a word count of 358, characters 1639. I'm assuming, therefore, that these numbers represent *only* the paragraphs flagged as "fragmented", "passive voice", "long sentence", etc? So, I guess all I need is either confirmation of the above assumption or ... has the stats process gone wonky? SM |
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