Word count for highlighted passages
Amy Buxton
It would be great to be able to highlight specific passages and see the word count for just that section, at the bottom of the page. This would come in handy when extending pieces by a set number of words.
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Jeff Joseph
Word count is critical for design. It is essential that there is a word count capability within each section, not just the entire document. Ideally, that word count should be live and adjusting in real time as a section is being composed, or edited.
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Megan Lane
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So handy. Am mid-project on content requiring different character counts for different elements, and currently (vexingly) either working in Word/Pages or copy-pasting my Gather work into blank documents to check character counts.
AND I just found Gather's total character count isn't reliable. Just compared a page:
- Gather says 1,500 characters
- Pages says 1,000, or 840 without spaces
As we're currently using Gather for a print project — so strict character counts per page as well as content elements — this is troublesome.
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Victoria Bresman
Hi Nicole S - thanks so much for giving us this feedback on word counts.
Are you able to elaborate on what you'd like to see at all please? Just so we know we've got it right 😊
Word/character counts set in the Template will be underneath each field name, like the attached. The whole page count will appear in the footer at the bottom of the item.
Does this resolve your feedback?
Best wishes,
Victoria
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Nicole S
Victoria Bresman: Hi, I meant because the word count at the bottom also includes the guidelines, it would be great to see the word count in each section. At the moment, we're not able to see how long text is in intro and main body. It shows total only.
Jeff Joseph
Nicole S:
YES!