[X4U] Word count in Pages

Steve Martin steve at planomartins.com
Thu Apr 13 20:06:37 PDT 2006


Here is an AppleScript that should do it.  Just enter this text in  
Script Editor and execute it.

tell application "Pages"
	count of words of body text of document 1
end tell


On Apr 13, 2006, at 9:58 PM, Samantha Cornell wrote:

> I would google this, but well...you can imagine the useless results  
> that come up.  Kind of makes me wish Apple would have chosen a more  
> obscure name.
>
> Anyway, I'm scrambling to finish about 90 pages of writing to  
> finish my undergrad, and out of frustration with Word's crappy auto  
> formatting I moved everything over to Pages, only to find out that  
> I can't do a word count to save my life.
>
> I truly do not want to go back over to Word...is it possible to do  
> a word count in Pages?  Have I missed something simple in my  
> exhaustion-induced delirium?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Samantha
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