Chapter word count shows low until I highlight the entire chapter then you can see that there are clearly more words than being reported. For example, it shows 2,469 words in the chapters at the bottom, however then I highlight the entire chapter and then it says I have highlighted 4,273 out of 2,469 words. I have no notes or anything else added in there, why is the word count showing like this?
It looks like the word count will update correctly if I start typing in that chapter, but it does this every time I reopen the program. Is there a way around having to do this every relaunch?
If you don’t have any specific formatting - or if you can live without it, or don’t mind reformatting : try creating a new document and pasting the whole of the problematic chapter(document) in it, using Edit / Paste and match style.
If the issue comes from invisible formatting data, doing that will wipe it away.
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