How can I do wordcount in wordpad?

[gamepad]

I hope to never count an essay like that ever again.
Is there a function in word pad that can count it for me?
I just learned a couple weeks ago that ctrl + 2 = double space.
I don't have to manually double space anymore...lol

Maybe there's some script out there?

Or should I just buy Microsoft Word...

 

[yobarman]

You know there are open source word processors out there?

http://www.openoffice.org/

At the very least, do you word count in there.

 

[xSauronx]

dunno about wordpad, no need to buy Word if thats all you care for, OpenOffice will handle that. probably something simpler will, but hell if i know what.

and...software forum

 

[SVT Cobra]

Openoffice man.

 

[novasatori]

Originally posted by: yobarman
You know there are open source word processors out there?

http://www.openoffice.org/

At the very least, do you word count in there.

Originally posted by: xSauronx
dunno about wordpad, no need to buy Word if thats all you care for, OpenOffice will handle that. probably something simpler will, but hell if i know what.

and...software forum

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
Openoffice man.

 

[dartworth]

wow...

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

You do know how to estimate right? You do know that an essay assignment of 1000 words is approximately 3 pages of double spaced type right?

Tell me there is some logical reason for counting each word?

 

[IronWing]

Cut and paste on this site.

I tested it with a 5100 word document and it handled it.

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: SVT Cobra
Openoffice man.

FTW.

Abiword works nicely as well, but lags terribly when saving files for me.

 

[jiggahertz]

man wc

 

[eakers]

google documents?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

wow... counted words manually? :shocked:

 

[Shawn]

People actually use Wordpad? :Q

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: Shawn
People actually use Wordpad? :Q

I still use Notepad and Notepad++.

Edit: Oh I can't forget nano in linux

 

[swtethan]

send it to a friend to do it for you instead of wasting that time to count

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
wow... counted words manually? :shocked:

Gotta be a Freshman. I once had a classmate ask an English Professor what kind of paper she liked. Ummmm white?

 

[ultimatebob]

You wrote a 1,000 word essay in WordPad?!? That thing doesn't even have a spell checker!

Add my name to the "You're nuts, use OpenOffice or Google Docs instead!" guest book

 

[esun]

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?wc

So copy your essay into a text file on a UNIX machine, then call 'wc essay' and it will give you the word count.

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: esun
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?wc

So copy your essay into a text file on a UNIX machine, then call 'wc essay' and it will give you the word count.

Yeah... That wouldn't work unless he saved it as a plain text file first. Wordpad saves everything in RTF format by default, which would add a bunch of formatting tags to his word count.

 

[gamepad]

Thanks, OpenOffice is good. I didn't even know that I spelled Thomas Jefferson "Thomason Jefferon" almost every time.

And yes, this is my first semester of college.