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?
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?
You need to activate scrivening view.
First icon:
Did you work in Scrivenings mode before? Try switching with ⌘
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(when a group is selected in Binder).
of course. I feel so foolish. Thx guys.
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.
I find it motivational to see my progress right as I write.