# Text statistics for entire manuscript

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/text-statistics-for-entire-manuscript/6124>\
**Category:** Scrivener for macOS\
**Tags:** support\
**Created:** [July 20, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/text-statistics-for-entire-manuscript/6124 "2009-07-20T15:22:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![jenniferso](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jenniferso](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/jenniferso)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/text-statistics-for-entire-manuscript/6124/1 "2009-07-20T15:22:22Z")

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I am able to get Text Stats for a chapter (folder) but can’t seem to figure out how to get the stats for the entire ms at once. I’m able to get Project Stats but when I try to get the Text Stats, it’s ‘grayed out’ or it only gives info for one ‘folder/chapter’. Any advice? Thanks!

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**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/text-statistics-for-entire-manuscript/6124/2 "2009-07-20T16:35:27Z")

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Text Statistics only analyses the contents of the current editor window or split. To get stats for more than one document at once (like all of the contents of a folder), use Edit Scrivenings in conjunction with.

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**Author:** ![jenniferso](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9a140/32.png) [@jenniferso](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/jenniferso)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/text-statistics-for-entire-manuscript/6124/3 "2009-07-20T21:13:02Z")

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Thanks for the response. When I tried Edit Scrivenings I get a ‘grayed out’ Text Statistics. So I obviously can’t use it.

My manuscript is set up so that each chapter is a folder, under 3 main folders: ACT I, ACT II, ACT III  
Those folders are under ‘Manuscript’

so it’s like this:

Manuscript  
—Title Page (page)  
—ACT I (folder)  
------Chapter 1 (folder)  
------Chapter 2 (folder)  
—ACT II (folder)  
------Chapter 1 (folder)  
------Chapter 2 (folder)  
Etc…

Am I setting my manuscript up wrong – or in a way that makes things more difficult for me? Any idea why I don’t have the ability to see Text Stats?

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**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/text-statistics-for-entire-manuscript/6124/4 "2009-07-20T22:15:59Z")

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My apologies, one thing that needs to be done after creating an Edit Scrivenings session out of a folder is to put the cursor anywhere in the text editor.