Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 290)

270 Word count, text analysis, document properties & statistics Proofing Documents
Keep a running count of the characters, words and/or paragraphs of
your document in your header or footer
Headers and footers, as explained on page 143 are an excellent place for displaying variable data
that describes your document. In addition to the automatic numbers, date & time variables and
document properties described there, you can also display:
• the total number of characters in the document.
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Choose the menu command Insert > Automatic Number > Character Count.
This document has 1069495 characters.
• the total number of words in the document.
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Choose the menu command Insert > Automatic Number > Word Count.
This document has 5829 words.
• the total number of paragraphs in the document.
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Choose the menu command Insert > Automatic Number > Paragraph Count.
This document has 502 paragraphs.
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Because this information constantly changes as you manipulate your text, Nisus Writer Pro does not
continuously update the display of the numbers associated with character, word and paragraph
count. This information can become “stale”. To indicate that it is out of date, Nisus Writer Pro draws a
red line around such text. You can update the display whenever you want.
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To update only some content, select a range of text that has “stale” information and choose the
menu command Tools > Automatic Content > Update Selected Stale Content.
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To update all information in your document, choose the menu command Tools > Automatic
Content > Update All Stale Content.
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You can turn the display of the line surrounding stale text on or off, as well as change its color,
in the Appearances preferences of Nisus Writer Pro as explained in “Determine the color of
various aspects of your Nisus Writer Pro working environment” on page 378.
Text analysis
Nisus Writer Pro uses the Flesch Reading Ease scale to evaluate the reading level of documents. The
scores range from a low of 0 to a high of 100. A high Flesch Reading Ease score means your
document should be easy to understand. Nisus Writer Pro also calculates the reading grade level of
the document in addition to many other details about your file. This information as well as the
number of sentences and the number of words per sentence and the total number of words, is
available in the Text Analysis sheet illustrated in Figure 295 which displays the scores for the
Gutenberg Project edition of Black Beauty, with the first chapter selected.
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Choose the menu command File > Text Analysis….
Figure 295
The text analysis sheet
You can learn more about the Flesch Reading Ease scale and the FOG Index in the Appendix on
page 461.
• The information displayed includes all the text not in footnotes/endnotes nor headers/
footers.
You can copy the information in the sheet to paste elsewhere. Everything displayed in the sheet
is copied in table form.
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Choose the menu command Edit > Copy.