ONLYOFFICE
Show word count in the Status Bar
Do you want to request a feature or report a bug? Feature
What is the current behavior?
Status bar only shows page number
What is the expected behavior? Status bar should show word count and selected text word count, right besides the page number as in MS Office and every other Office application. See: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/show-word-count-3c9e6a11-a04d-43b4-977c-563a0e0d5da3#ID0EAACAAA=Newer_versions
Which versions of DesktopEditors, and which OS are affected by this issue? Did this work in previous versions of DesktopEditors? v5.2.4
Hello, @uncertainquark. Thank you for your enhancement. I created a new issue 40224 in our private issue tracker.
I just wanted to mention that this is a critical feature for translators, editors and proofreaders, as word counting is the first step for stipulating the price for a document and the correct size for specific document elements. The absence of this feature makes it impossible to fully implement OnlyOffice in translation agencies, so it would be truly appreciated if this was implemented.
I also came here looking for this. I saw that this was put into #40224 in the internal issue tracker back in January. Has there been any progress you can report on this?
@uncertainquark, the issue of placing information on the number of words in the status bar is still being discussed with our team.
Adding a +1 to this - this is really essential for use in an education context, too.
Having the ability to select a part of a document and get the word count for that part is a basic feature requirement for a word processor used in any educational setting.
Adding a +1 to this - this is really essential for authors. Both word and character counts in status bar.
I just wanted to second what everyone is saying. Lack of word count in the status bar is the only thing that drew me away from OnlyOffice. It's a key feature.
+1 from me as well :) Would be pretty handy for University / School works with a certain word limit
I got this request from a user, it would be very helpful to have this feature for out users.
@mvvvmd you can contact [email protected] to speed things up
I'll send a email, we are a paying customer so it could help, thanks.
Another educator here. Needed for the word-counts. Copy and paste to a second doc is too laborious. Maybe a macro can show it as a temporary solution? Can I say that Onlyoffice otherwise is absolutely brilliant for grading otherwise. docx and pdf guides in tabs (online epubs too), comments displayed on the side. I like it a lot. But wordcounts are a hassle.
The "translator" plugin/macro already comes quite close. https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/sdkjs-plugins/tree/master/translate if you look at how it works, it uses the current selection. It opens a panel on the left and displays the translated selection. So if we could adjust tat macro to get the wordcount from the selection and display it, it could work.
I saw that they have word count in the document info. Its the selection and count feature that would definitely help.
Adding my plus one to this, new user trying it out as an office suit on Linux. Needs to have word count
This is a big omission for my organisation which took a bit of convincing to move to OnlyOffice. We write a lot of documents that have set word counts. So having to paste sections into Google Docs to get a count is really unproductive. Although on https://www.onlyoffice.com/en/document-editor.aspx it does state that I should be able to do this.
@Julianlstar
Although on https://www.onlyoffice.com/en/document-editor.aspx it does state that I should be able to do this.
If you mean this quote
Analyze your document: view word count, paragraphs, and characters with or without spaces
We able to do it:
This issue only for situation with display word count in status bar
Thanks. Word count in the status bar would really help us as we write a lot of word count specific funding bids.
@ShockwaveNN while this does work, it is difficult to get an understanding of the number of words in a selected part of the text. This is vital when you are looking at a part of a very large document. Like @Julianlstar said, it takes a lot of convincing in an organisation to move to open source and most people are only one excuse away from moving back.
In addition to the suggestions above, the word count should also take into account tracked changes - i.e. if a word is deleted using tracked changes, it should not count towards the total, or at least it should be differentiated. This is not the case even now in the info view of the document, while it's standard feature of other word processors. Although it's possible to get this info in OO if you change view of tracked changes on the collaboration tab first - then the info shows word count for that particular view / version.
Word / char counts for selections are also important - in academia, it's very common to have limits on the entire article as well as a separate limit on abstract length, so being able to select just abstract to see its word count is crucial. On the other hand, conference submitions usually set a limit on characters instead of words (usually as a web form limit during submission).
Hello, sorry to re-engage this issue, but I wanted to check and see if there had been any progress on this and/or #167 . Both of these related features are super handy and should be fairly uncomplicated to implement. A simple split view on the status bar showing both the total and selected word count (I.e. “35 / 100 words”) would be perfect. Thanks.
Its helpful when your writing an essay and want to check the word count without the titles and headers that i would count in. Its the small things that make a product reach out to more people. For me its almost an deal breaker. I use another tool for counting words.
Its helpful when your writing an essay and want to check the word count without the titles and headers that i would count in. Its the small things that make a product reach out to more people. For me its almost an deal breaker. I use another tool for counting words.
That's a really good point. When you pay for professional editing and a "bulk" word count is used, it counts the repeating header and footer text on each and every page. It really only should be counted on the first page. This inflates the cost of editing, not that it is ever cheap.
@RolandHughes I think @PiecePaperCode meant just headlines and titles of e.g. chapters, not headers and footers (i.e. the text inside upper and lower margins)...
When I submit text for editing or publishing, titles & headlines count towards the total charged by the publisher, so I want to have them included. On the other hand I only see headers and footers in institutional forms, I dunno if anybody cares about a wordcount in them.