menu item name change?

[annik]

OK ... been writing lots the last few hours and really enjoying most of it. One thing annoys me, though, is "target" for statistics. I don't think of "target" as a way of checking my global word count, and had tried everything I could think of to figure out how to *get* a global word count *except* try the "target" option.

Could a "Global Word Count" be broken out from "Target" as a menu option? :-) I spent most of this evening mentally adding up the words in the table view to get a global count, LOL!

[KB]

There are two other ways to get a global word count:

1) Enter Draft View mode. The count at the bottom will give you a good idea. However, this includes all of the document titles included in the text, so 2) is more accurate:

2) Ctrl-click on the "Draft" folder in any view. At the bottom of the contextual word menu, you will see a word count for everything stored inside the folder.

Thus, "Targets" isn't really the place you should go for this. It's just there as part of the targets...

HTH,
Keith

[annik]

admin said:

There are two other ways to get a global word count:

2) Ctrl-click on the "Draft" folder in any view. At the bottom of the contextual word menu, you will see a word count for everything stored inside the folder.
HTH,
Keith

Yes, thank you! I'm really not used to using Control for *anything* on Mac ... the "command" key is my 'intiutive Mac' method for just about everything. So I keep forgetting you've got lots of control-click stuff in Scrivener, LOL!

Thanks again!

[ambimb]

Ok, I, too, was happy to discover the global word count via the right-click on "Drafts." However, this count is the same total count I see when I open the "Target" window, and both of these counts are about 1500 words less than the count I see at the bottom of the screen in Draft view. Why the huge difference? I definitely don't have 1500 words worth of document titles.

If I select-all in Draft view, then copy and paste the whole document into MS Word, the word count in Word for the whole doc will be pretty close to the count that appears at the bottom of the screen in the Draft view in Scrivener.

[KB]

I cannot reproduce this - can you give more details, please? This should not happen, as the code used for both counts is the same; the only thing that doesn't get counted in the ctrl-click/targets count is the titles.

I'm clutching at straws here, but:
1) Are you sure it's the word count and not the character count that is 1500 off?
2) Are you sure you are not ctrl-clicking the top folder in the Draft View outline view (which is not the actual Draft folder, but the first sub-folder) and comparing that to the count at the bottom?

Sorry if they are rather blindingly obvious, but I can't think of anything that would cause this, and have never seen it myself. More info would certainly be appreciated.
Thanks,
Keith

[ambimb]

I wish the blindingly obvious explanations would explain this, but they don't. Let me show you. I right-click here:


And this is the right-click menu I see with a word count of 6567 (obviously the character count is much higher):


And here's what the target window says -- this count agrees with the right-click count:


Finally, here's the word couunt at the bottom of the Drafts view:


When I first started playing with Scrivener, I didn't notice this discrepancy. I think I started to see it after I'd copied text from another program into Scrivener to create two new documents, then I typed a third document inside Scrivener, saved and quit, then later (like the next day) opened up the project again and checked my word count and noticed this. I just thought it was a quirk of the Target window -- something you were still working on. But when you said the right-click was supposed to give a global word count, it started to look like there was a problem.

Oh, I just noticed you've found this, too: scrivener.proboards58.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1131318395.

[futurosity]

Is the difference in word counts because you're in Binder view when you right click on the Draft folder, and in Draft view when you look at the status bar at the bottom? In Draft view, Scrivener shows you the total words, including the word count for the file names.