word 2000 line and word counts

[carla]

Does anyone know what Word 2000 counts as a character?
Are tabs, spaces, returns counted as a character. How
many characters does it use per line to calculate line
count?

 

[Carla]

I really need to know how it counts characters and how
many characters are in line because I have
transcriptionists who previously transcribed in a Lanier
transcription system that calculated line counts and now
are working fron a word based line count. There are big
differences between the character counts and line counts
from the 2 systems. Their incentive pay is based on the
Lanier system. I need to be able to establish some factor
so that the incentive pay is comparable to the Lanier
system. Lanier's system is based on a 65 character line
count. Lanier's characters are any printable character,
spaces, returns, tabs and indents.
Thanks,
Carla

 

[Anne Pontillo]

Carla,

If you look in File, Properties for an open document, on the Statistics tab,
it gives counts for the following properties: Pages, Paragraphs, Lines,
Word, Characters, Characters with spaces. These statistics are as follows
for a document with no tables:
Pages is obvious, it is the number of page in a doc.
Paragraphs are counted by a paragraph mark (when the user presses enter).
Lines are counted as each line in the document, where a manual paragraph
break, a manual line break or a soft line break (created by Word Wrap), no
matter what the line spacing is set to. For example, in a double-spaced
paragraph with five lines of text, there are five lines.
Words: Each word is counted, however, things like a date in the format of
June 30, 2003 is counted as three words, a date in the format of 06/30/2003
is counted as one word and a phrase like vis-a-vis is counted as one word.
You can create a document and type in some various words and phrases using
punctuation marks like above and then check file properties to see how it
counts the words.
Characters is all characters in the document except for spaces, tabs, para
marks, line breaks, section breaks, page breaks, etc.
Characters with spaces is all characters from above paragraph and also
including spaces (from spacebar) and manual line breaks.

Hope this helps.
Anne

 

[Anne Pontillo]

Carla,

I actually just found something out also. The word count is a document is
different in the File, Properties dialog box than through VBA Code. If you
have a document that has the following text: Now is the time for all good
men.
The File, Properties dialog box says it has 8 Words. It only counts the
words.
The Selection.Words.Count method in VBA shows 10 words. It is counting the
period at the end of the sentence and the paragraph mark at the end of the
sentence.
Also, the phrase: vis-a-vis is counted as one word through File, Properties
and is counted as 5 words through VBA.

Anne