2 Replies Latest reply: Oct 16, 2013 9:30 AM by Michael_OSP RSS

    Paragraph & Word Count in InCopy

    Michael_OSP Community Member

      Is there a way to count a selected block of text to know how many words and paragraph returns with InCopy? InDesign has the info panel but I can't find an equivelent for InCopy? If not, is there a way to write a script or does one exist to count? I will be doing list of people and always will know the final number and confirming the count will help confirm no one's name was skipped.

        • 1. Re: Paragraph & Word Count in InCopy
          AnneMarie Concepcion CommunityMVP

          It's actually easier and more powerful to do this in InCopy than in InDesign.

           

          Select the text you want to count in InCopy and look at the bottom toolbar, in the middle. That's the Story Info toolbar. If you just click in a story, it'll show you a count of the story's words, characters, paragraphs, and column depth.  If you make a selection, it shows you the same info for the selection.

           

          If you're not seeing Selection info, then click on the Toolbar menu icon (far right of the toolbar and choose Customize. There you can enable the Selection count to appear.

           

          AM

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          • 2. Re: Paragraph & Word Count in InCopy
            Michael_OSP Community Member

            AnneMarie, thanks for pointing me in the right direction to find the option to turn on paragraph count for selections. Silly me was looking in the regular preferences without any luck.

             

            Hope to see you at PepCon someday again but state of California employees are prevented from traveling out-of-state for training. :{(