Find Word Statistics On Any Piece Of Text 8
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It was quite hard to summarise this post in a catch title. In a nutshell this post is going to introduce you to a Service Menu option that will make your life a lot easier if you ever need to count words. Most people find that TextEdit, doesn’t have a method to count words or letters. This seems a major oversite. Its isn’t, the function has just moved so it can be used in any application.
To test this function out, first select a bit of text. Then go to the Services menu, under the application you are currently using. Select the Statistics option at the bottom of the list. The pop up should produce something similar to the image below.
You can also access this service by pressing Command + Shift + I. This again, will bring up the window. I would like to point out that you can’t Command + Tab out of the window and back in again. Doing this will cause it to disappear. If this does happen open up Terminal and quit “WordService”. Always press Ok when you have finished to remove a lot of problems.
This is a simple little tip, but it is quite useful. Its a system wide word counter, compared to an application specific function.
Edit: Seems people don’t have this menu, download it here, unzip it and install it in /Users/[Name]/Library/Services. You may need to restart for the changes to take effect.
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8 Responses to “Find Word Statistics On Any Piece Of Text”
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I looked but did not see statistics under services. I even tried the short cut, but that opened an email message.
Comment By Larz on July 17th, at 4:04 pm
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Does not work for me too, there is no Satistics under Service menu.
Comment By Felipe Diesel on July 17th, at 5:23 pm
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I think you have something installed here that the rest of us don’t. Like the other commenters, there’s no “statistics” option in my services menu either. But do please let us know how you managed to get it once you find out!
Comment By Chris on July 17th, at 10:28 pm
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I had the same experience as the above, no statistics. Could you help us with some more information.
OSX 10.5.7, 2GHz Intel core duo imacComment By Norm Gulkis on July 17th, at 10:40 pm
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See the last line in the post, seems another program must have installed it.
Comment By admin on July 17th, at 10:52 pm
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The Statistics menu item comes from the WordServices download available on this page from Devon Technologies.
Comment By Brad on July 18th, at 5:01 am
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What if there is no “services” menu under Users/name/Library ???
Comment By Eric Avery on July 22nd, at 1:26 am
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Add the folder, your Mac will pick it up.
Comment By admin on July 22nd, at 1:20 pm
