Viewing the Word Count

You can look in the lower-left of the XML Editor to see the word count for the open content file. Also, you can generate reports to see the word count for files in different ways.

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XML Editor

If you select content, that number of words is shown along with the total word count for the file (e.g., 7/60 = 7 out of 60 words are selected).

XML Editor showing word count for selected content out of total number of words.

Reports

After you add and open a report, select any of the following in the Report Editor, then generate the report.

  • Content Files > File Word Count Shows word count for each content file in project

    Option that reports on the file word count.

  • Project > Statistics Shows total words combined for all content files in project (along with other statistics, such as total number of topics and images)

    Option that shows statistics for the file.

  • Target > Word Count Shows total words combined for all content files in target, based on associated TOC

    The word count option for files in a target, based on TOC.

If the animation below is cut off, you can see the complete animation by clicking the link under it to open the full topic.