Here is how I go about it : (say I don’t feel like using the stats, that is.)
A page is roughly 250 words. (The page count can only be an educated guess anyways in a non wysiwyg software such as Scrivener.)
So it’s four pages per thousand words plus four pages for 750+ words, three for 500+, two for 250+, one for 250 or less.
The math is easy to do off of the word count. (97,478 is 390 pages. … 360 + 28 + 2)
That works for a novel.
If you compile to 8x11, two pages per thousand words should be roughly accurate.
If you want a precise count, no choice but to compile.
You can temporarily turn on page view, but you’ll still have to do with an approximation, as it doesn’t take changes per compile into account.
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