Getting word count and other document statistics

AppleWorks can calculate the number of characters, words, lines, paragraphs, sections, and pages in selected text or in any document type except for a painting document. (Not all statistics are available for all document types.)

To get statistics for an entire document:
Choose Writing Tools from the Edit menu, then choose Word Count from the submenu.

To get statistics for selected text within a document:
1 Select the text you want to analyze.
2 Choose Writing Tools from the Edit menu, then choose Word Count from the submenu.
3 Select Count Selection.

Related topic

  Word-processing utilities

 
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