Word count in status bar

[aithal]

I could see the total word count of my book, etc. in the status bar.

I don’t know what I’ve done but it’s missing now. I can only see it when I drill into individual chapters and select the text. How do I get it back?

[Vincent_Vincent]

You need to activate scrivening view.

First icon:

[November_Sierra]

Did you work in Scrivenings mode before? Try switching with ⌘ 1 (when a group is selected in Binder).

[aithal]

of course. I feel so foolish. Thx guys.

[reepicheep]

I wanted the opposite (no word count in the status bar) so I went to Preferences > Editing and then unchecked the options for Words, Characters, Pages. Becomes the default for all projects.

I prefer to use the Project > Statistics output when I want to know how much I’ve written.

[aithal]

I find it motivational to see my progress right as I write.