I’m guessing the answer is no, but it would help so I’m just checking. If I have four open documents and add words to all of them can I get somewhere a count of all those added words?
Thanks.
Do you, by “documents”, actually mean “projects” ?
If what you mean is really documents, just check your writing history. → Project/Writing history
If what you meant is a word count across four different projects, just do the same for each of those projects, and add them up. (But no automatic way to do it, no.)
If the question is “is it possible for exclusively four documents out of a couple of documents to which I wrote?”, then it’d be possible using snapshots, by copying them to a new dummy document, but that’d be quite a lot of trouble. – Probably not even worth it.
Hi thanks for the reply. I think the term I should have used is projects. So your second answer is most relevant. Manual works ok, I just hoped there might be some overarching word count hidden somewhere deep in scrivener.
Not that I am aware of.
Although I think I might have seen something about some MacOs feature or background app that does count your day’s writing independently of the software where you did.
(I am a windows user, so that’s as far as I can go.)
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I’m a Mac user, and I have a program called WordCounter that tracks all of the writing I do across every app I interact with throughout my day.
It’s not necessarily a cheap app for what it does, but I’ve been pleased to have a total word count for every email, help-desk ticket, note, and so on I’ve written each day.
One of its drawbacks is that I can’t see a per-project breakdown for Scrivener. But, as Vincent_Vincent said, I can get that from each project’s writing history if needed.
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Thanks I’ll look into that.