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# Word Count

Counts the words and characters, with or without spaces, in the current selection and in the whole document. The count is kept up to date as you type or change the selection.

To access this command...

#### From the menu bar:

Choose Tools - Word Count

#### From the tabbed interface:

Choose Review - Word Count.

On the Review menu of the Review tab, choose Word Count.

#### From toolbars:

Word Count

#### From the status bar:

Click on the Word and Character Count area.

### How does LibreOffice count words?

In general, every string of characters between two spaces is a word. Dashes, tabs, line breaks, and paragraph breaks are word limits, too.

Words with always visible hyphens, as in plug-in, add-on, user/config, are counted as one word each.

The words can be a mix of letters, numbers, and special characters. So the following text counts as four words: abc123 1.23 "$" http://www.example.com.

To add a custom character to be considered as the word limit, choose LibreOffice - Preferences Tools - Options - LibreOffice Writer - General and add the character into the Additional separators field. By default, this field contains em dash (—) and en dash (–).

Related Topics

File - Properties - Statistics

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