[X4U] Word count in Pages

[Steve Martin]

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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