HTMLHelp word count

[Fly_Molo]

I'm trying to nail down a word count for a series of merged HTML Help chms. I couldn't find a report in RoboHelp that could accomplish that, does anyone have a creative trick to get this done? Or should I just generate a large Word doc?

Thanks for any ideas.

//Lucas

[RoboColum_n_]

Hi Lucas and welcome to our community. You've got the answer without us. There is no way within RH to do a word count. If you generate a word document from each CHM, copy and paste the content into a single document and use MS Word's word count facility you'll get what you want. There is no other easy way to do this.

[Chet Zeshonski]

To simplify Colum's suggestion: Generate a Word document from each CHM, run the word count feature on each .doc file, and use a calculator to come up with the total

[CraigCC]

Hi Lucas,

There are a few word count software packages out there.
For example, http://www.anycount.com/wordcounting_software/word_count/html_htm_word_count.htm
24 Euros - you can't buy an abacus for that price these days :-)

The above even claims to count the words in a .chm file.
http://www.anycount.com/wordcounting_software/word_count/chm_word_count.html

Good luck
Craig

[Fly_Molo]

Thanks for help. I'll probably go the Word route, the count is more out of curiosity than anything.

Cheers!