Suggestion - Behaviour when selecting a word inside the text-editting window

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Hi! Totally new here but long time Scrivener’s user.
I never found if there’s an option to highlight all the same words when I select any word in the text-editing window (as it happens in Notepad++).
This would be a nice feature to check the duplicity of nouns in a short period of words, etc.

Thanks!!!

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Hello marabalos.

Have you looked to Scrivener’s built-in search tools? Using the basic search for a specific word or phrase in your document should prompt Scrivener to highlight that word or phrase throughout the document.

That will give you a quick glance to see if you’re overusing particular words or turns of phrase.

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That could potentially be nice indeed.
But, in my opinion, life ain’t so bad without it.
Personally, I manually highlight the repetitive words I spot, if I spot them when rereading. (I use the pink and the orange highlight colors specifically for this and nothing else.) My philosophy would be that if I don’t spot it, if it ain’t annoying enough to stop me reading in my tracks , it might very well be just fine as it is. (I usually get an odd head feeling when something is wrong along a segment of text, something between having consciously noticed and an intuition ← I trust this very much as a search n’ fix tool.)

So I would say that in my opinion, such an addition to Scrivener could potentially be useful, yes, and most probably, but going all out hunting for repetitive words might not necessarily be, in a way, the most constructive of habits to develop.

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Remember under writing tools can look at word freqencyor create a list of words you are concerned about and search all at once as long as separated by a comma OR a space

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I thought so too, but I can’t find the function anymore.
At least now I know I am not going crazy.
But look, here is the writing tool submenu :
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On my end, I thought it to be somewhere in the statistics, but it ain’t there either.

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Is there under Project>text statistics

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the bottom of the window can be expanded to expose more words and you can exclude common insigificant words like the, and, if, etc to concentrate to look for word abuse.

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Right. Thanks.
→ I might be in need of new glasses…

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Thanks a lot for the responses! The best option so far is what @RuthS suggested. Anyway, I do this word-checking very often so built-in search requires a lot more of work than simple double clicking it (hey, maybe I used to much Notepad++!!)

Thanks again! Sorry for my grammar, I’m not an english-speaker.

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