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How do I get a total TYPED line count?
I need to know how to get a total typed line count for the documents that I
transcribe. I have previously been working in WordPerfect and, quite honestly, love it. I am now having to switch to Word, and I cannot get a total TYPED line count. I am new to Word and need a quick and easy way to get a total typed line count for billing purposes. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I purchased The Medical Transcriptionist's Guide to MS Word, and I'm just not getting it. HELP! Thank you to anyone who can help. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. |
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:27:01 -0700, "Lisa"
wrote: I need to know how to get a total typed line count for the documents that I transcribe. I have previously been working in WordPerfect and, quite honestly, love it. I am now having to switch to Word, and I cannot get a total TYPED line count. I am new to Word and need a quick and easy way to get a total typed line count for billing purposes. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I purchased The Medical Transcriptionist's Guide to MS Word, and I'm just not getting it. HELP! Thank you to anyone who can help. I'll believe you're treating your word processor like a typewriter, and hitting Enter twice to get "blank lines". Word considers every paragraph -- every Enter -- as a line, whether it contains any text or not. That's why your line count is off. If you can't train yourself to use styles and the Space Before or Space After paragraph formatting to create blank space -- and I agree that this is a hard habit to cultivate -- then there is an alternative. Open the Replace dialog. In the Find What box, type ^p^p (note that these must be lower case p's). In the Replace With box, type ^p Click the Replace All button. This will remove the second paragraph mark from each double occurrence. Now go to Tools Word Count to get the actual line count. Finally, click the Undo button to put back all the paragraph marks. (Someone may suggest closing the document without saving, but in my experience too many people forget and click the Yes button, thus saving the altered document instead of what they want to keep. It's just too dangerous.) This whole procedure can be recorded as a macro to make it easier to repeat. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Thank you so much! I will give this a try. By the way, how do you make a
macro for this so that I don't have to repeat after each account (which could consist of over a 1000 lines) -- Transcriptionist on the rise. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:27:01 -0700, "Lisa" wrote: I need to know how to get a total typed line count for the documents that I transcribe. I have previously been working in WordPerfect and, quite honestly, love it. I am now having to switch to Word, and I cannot get a total TYPED line count. I am new to Word and need a quick and easy way to get a total typed line count for billing purposes. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I purchased The Medical Transcriptionist's Guide to MS Word, and I'm just not getting it. HELP! Thank you to anyone who can help. I'll believe you're treating your word processor like a typewriter, and hitting Enter twice to get "blank lines". Word considers every paragraph -- every Enter -- as a line, whether it contains any text or not. That's why your line count is off. If you can't train yourself to use styles and the Space Before or Space After paragraph formatting to create blank space -- and I agree that this is a hard habit to cultivate -- then there is an alternative. Open the Replace dialog. In the Find What box, type ^p^p (note that these must be lower case p's). In the Replace With box, type ^p Click the Replace All button. This will remove the second paragraph mark from each double occurrence. Now go to Tools Word Count to get the actual line count. Finally, click the Undo button to put back all the paragraph marks. (Someone may suggest closing the document without saving, but in my experience too many people forget and click the Yes button, thus saving the altered document instead of what they want to keep. It's just too dangerous.) This whole procedure can be recorded as a macro to make it easier to repeat. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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I tried all that you suggested as far as going to the Replace dialogue, and I
get a message "Word has finished searching the document. The search item was not found." I typed in ^p^ in the Find What box and ^p in the Replace With button then Replace All. I opened up the document that I need the total lines for and then did what you suggested. Any other suggestions, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks again for your time and help! -- Transcriptionist on the rise. "Lisa" wrote: I need to know how to get a total typed line count for the documents that I transcribe. I have previously been working in WordPerfect and, quite honestly, love it. I am now having to switch to Word, and I cannot get a total TYPED line count. I am new to Word and need a quick and easy way to get a total typed line count for billing purposes. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I purchased The Medical Transcriptionist's Guide to MS Word, and I'm just not getting it. HELP! Thank you to anyone who can help. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. |
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:08:01 -0700, "Lisa"
wrote: Thank you so much! I will give this a try. By the way, how do you make a macro for this so that I don't have to repeat after each account (which could consist of over a 1000 lines) The article at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ngRecorder.htm walks through a recording session. When I tried the procedure I recommended to you, though, I found that the recorder wouldn't record the Word Count command or the Undo as part of the macro -- the most critical part! So here is the macro you need, which can't be recorded (not an unusual situation). See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for how to put the macro into your template. Sub TypedLineCount() Dim oRg As Range, svRg As Range Set svRg = Selection.Range Set oRg = ActiveDocument.Range With oRg.Find .ClearFormatting .Replacement.ClearFormatting .Text = "^p^p" .Replacement.Text = "^p" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchWildcards = False .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll End With Dialogs(wdDialogToolsWordCount).Display ActiveDocument.Undo svRg.Select Set svRg = Nothing Set oRg = Nothing End Sub You can assign a hotkey to this macro by following the steps at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...roToHotkey.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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You need to put ^p^p (not ^p^) in the "Find what" box.
-- 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. "Lisa" wrote in message ... I tried all that you suggested as far as going to the Replace dialogue, and I get a message "Word has finished searching the document. The search item was not found." I typed in ^p^ in the Find What box and ^p in the Replace With button then Replace All. I opened up the document that I need the total lines for and then did what you suggested. Any other suggestions, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks again for your time and help! -- Transcriptionist on the rise. "Lisa" wrote: I need to know how to get a total typed line count for the documents that I transcribe. I have previously been working in WordPerfect and, quite honestly, love it. I am now having to switch to Word, and I cannot get a total TYPED line count. I am new to Word and need a quick and easy way to get a total typed line count for billing purposes. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I purchased The Medical Transcriptionist's Guide to MS Word, and I'm just not getting it. HELP! Thank you to anyone who can help. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. |
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Still doesn't work even with ^p^p in the Find What box. Still searching.
Thank you. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You need to put ^p^p (not ^p^) in the "Find what" box. -- 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. "Lisa" wrote in message ... I tried all that you suggested as far as going to the Replace dialogue, and I get a message "Word has finished searching the document. The search item was not found." I typed in ^p^ in the Find What box and ^p in the Replace With button then Replace All. I opened up the document that I need the total lines for and then did what you suggested. Any other suggestions, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks again for your time and help! -- Transcriptionist on the rise. "Lisa" wrote: I need to know how to get a total typed line count for the documents that I transcribe. I have previously been working in WordPerfect and, quite honestly, love it. I am now having to switch to Word, and I cannot get a total TYPED line count. I am new to Word and need a quick and easy way to get a total typed line count for billing purposes. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I purchased The Medical Transcriptionist's Guide to MS Word, and I'm just not getting it. HELP! Thank you to anyone who can help. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. |
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Hope this works. Thanks for your help!
-- Transcriptionist on the rise. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 19:08:01 -0700, "Lisa" wrote: Thank you so much! I will give this a try. By the way, how do you make a macro for this so that I don't have to repeat after each account (which could consist of over a 1000 lines) The article at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ngRecorder.htm walks through a recording session. When I tried the procedure I recommended to you, though, I found that the recorder wouldn't record the Word Count command or the Undo as part of the macro -- the most critical part! So here is the macro you need, which can't be recorded (not an unusual situation). See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for how to put the macro into your template. Sub TypedLineCount() Dim oRg As Range, svRg As Range Set svRg = Selection.Range Set oRg = ActiveDocument.Range With oRg.Find .ClearFormatting .Replacement.ClearFormatting .Text = "^p^p" .Replacement.Text = "^p" .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .MatchWildcards = False .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll End With Dialogs(wdDialogToolsWordCount).Display ActiveDocument.Undo svRg.Select Set svRg = Nothing Set oRg = Nothing End Sub You can assign a hotkey to this macro by following the steps at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...roToHotkey.htm. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Click FilePropertiesStatistics to see the line count of the document
You might also want to download FileStatistics fro http://www.productivitytalk.com/inde...ec=down&sort=1 BTW , http://www.productivitytalk.com/ is a site for MTs and contains a wealth of information. "Lisa" wrote in message ... I need to know how to get a total typed line count for the documents that I transcribe. I have previously been working in WordPerfect and, quite honestly, love it. I am now having to switch to Word, and I cannot get a total TYPED line count. I am new to Word and need a quick and easy way to get a total typed line count for billing purposes. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I purchased The Medical Transcriptionist's Guide to MS Word, and I'm just not getting it. HELP! Thank you to anyone who can help. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. |
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Thank you, Ed, but I need the total TYPED line count--not counting blank lines.
I appreciate your help. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. "Ed Weber" wrote: Click FilePropertiesStatistics to see the line count of the document You might also want to download FileStatistics fro http://www.productivitytalk.com/inde...ec=down&sort=1 BTW , http://www.productivitytalk.com/ is a site for MTs and contains a wealth of information. "Lisa" wrote in message ... I need to know how to get a total typed line count for the documents that I transcribe. I have previously been working in WordPerfect and, quite honestly, love it. I am now having to switch to Word, and I cannot get a total TYPED line count. I am new to Word and need a quick and easy way to get a total typed line count for billing purposes. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I purchased The Medical Transcriptionist's Guide to MS Word, and I'm just not getting it. HELP! Thank you to anyone who can help. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. |
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As others have told you, there should not be any "blank lines."
-- 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. "Lisa" wrote in message ... Thank you, Ed, but I need the total TYPED line count--not counting blank lines. I appreciate your help. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. "Ed Weber" wrote: Click FilePropertiesStatistics to see the line count of the document You might also want to download FileStatistics fro http://www.productivitytalk.com/inde...ec=down&sort=1 BTW , http://www.productivitytalk.com/ is a site for MTs and contains a wealth of information. "Lisa" wrote in message ... I need to know how to get a total typed line count for the documents that I transcribe. I have previously been working in WordPerfect and, quite honestly, love it. I am now having to switch to Word, and I cannot get a total TYPED line count. I am new to Word and need a quick and easy way to get a total typed line count for billing purposes. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I purchased The Medical Transcriptionist's Guide to MS Word, and I'm just not getting it. HELP! Thank you to anyone who can help. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. |
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http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Count_Lines_of_Text.htm
-- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Lisa wrote: Thank you, Ed, but I need the total TYPED line count--not counting blank lines. I appreciate your help. Click FilePropertiesStatistics to see the line count of the document You might also want to download FileStatistics fro http://www.productivitytalk.com/inde...ec=down&sort=1 BTW , http://www.productivitytalk.com/ is a site for MTs and contains a wealth of information. "Lisa" wrote in message ... I need to know how to get a total typed line count for the documents that I transcribe. I have previously been working in WordPerfect and, quite honestly, love it. I am now having to switch to Word, and I cannot get a total TYPED line count. I am new to Word and need a quick and easy way to get a total typed line count for billing purposes. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I purchased The Medical Transcriptionist's Guide to MS Word, and I'm just not getting it. HELP! Thank you to anyone who can help. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. |
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Thank you! This looks like what I need in a way I can understand. Thanks
for your time. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. "Greg Maxey" wrote: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Count_Lines_of_Text.htm -- Greg Maxey/Word MVP See: http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm For some helpful tips using Word. Lisa wrote: Thank you, Ed, but I need the total TYPED line count--not counting blank lines. I appreciate your help. Click FilePropertiesStatistics to see the line count of the document You might also want to download FileStatistics fro http://www.productivitytalk.com/inde...ec=down&sort=1 BTW , http://www.productivitytalk.com/ is a site for MTs and contains a wealth of information. "Lisa" wrote in message ... I need to know how to get a total typed line count for the documents that I transcribe. I have previously been working in WordPerfect and, quite honestly, love it. I am now having to switch to Word, and I cannot get a total TYPED line count. I am new to Word and need a quick and easy way to get a total typed line count for billing purposes. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I purchased The Medical Transcriptionist's Guide to MS Word, and I'm just not getting it. HELP! Thank you to anyone who can help. -- Transcriptionist on the rise. |
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