Selected text word count..?

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I’m relatively new to Scrivener and while I’m sure there are many useful features I’ve yet to discover, there’s one that appears to be missing (nor can I find previous mention of it on the boards).

I’m a journalist and write pieces to meet to specific word counts, both for whole documents and parts of a document (“Write a 200 word box”, for example). Scrivener only seems to offer a live word count of the whole document and so I have to paste blocks of text into a new document to get a word count of just part of it.

It would be extremely useful if I could select a block of text and have the live word count reflect that selection rather than the whole document. So, have I missed something here, or is a selected text word count feature missing…?

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Select the text → ctrl click over the selection, the pop up window shows the word count of the selected text.

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D’oh, so it does… In mitigation, it’s in light grey and, er, easy to miss. Thanks Ursula!

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In 2.0 the selected word/character count will replace the total word/character count in the footer view during selections, as in Word and other programs, because it is in a rather obscure place at the moment, admittedly.

All the best,
Keith

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Fab — can’t wait to see 2.0!