Word count over counts words

[mjerryfuerst]

I typed a letter, and Writer reported 344 words, which seemed high. I manually counted them and came up with 265. I copied the letter into MS Word and I go t 265. It seems that Writer may be counting such thins as commas, hyphens, and paragraph breaks as words.

[Hagar Delest]

There are some reports indeed about the word count in OOo, see here.

You should subscribe and vote for the closest one to your issue.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

With that much difference, I would suspect that you're counting words in a header, footer, or footnote too. Try selecting the text first.

[mjerryfuerst]

Someone suggested that I had counted words in headers and footers, etc. The letter had none of these, just several paragraphs of text.