J
Jorge Bravo
I am using Word 2007 Beta.
Is it possible to get the "Sentence count" ? (The number of sentences)
Thank you
Is it possible to get the "Sentence count" ? (The number of sentences)
Thank you
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Guest
Would counting the number of periods (full stops) give you this information?
Depends if you have used any abbreviations and punctuated them. Hope this
helps. I haven't tried 2007 yet.
Depends if you have used any abbreviations and punctuated them. Hope this
helps. I haven't tried 2007 yet.
J
Jorge Bravo
Well, I read the following in:
http://process.umn.edu/groups/ppd/documents/information/Writing_Tips.cfm
but can't see it in 2007.
Use Microsoft Word - Tools - Word Count for items 1 and 2 below.
1. Count the number of words in the sample 148
2. Count the number of sentences 13
3. Count the number of big words (3 or more syllables) 33
4. Calculate the average sentence length.
Divide the number of sentences into the number of words 148/13 = 11
5. Calculate the percentage of big words.
Divide the number of words into the number of big words 33/148=22%
6. Add the avg sentence length to the % of big words 11 + 22 = 33
7. Multiply the result by .4 33 x .4 =
Fog Index 13.2
Fog Index - Other Tools
Under the TOOLS Menu, Microsoft Word contains a word counter, grammar
checker and thesaurus you can use to help simplify your writing style.
The grammar checker doesn't use the Fog Index. It uses three Flesch tools to
analyze style:
1. Flesch Reading Ease (100 = easiest, 70-80 = average)
2. Flesch Grade Level (Assigns a grade level reader must have to
understand
your writing, 6 = average)
3. Flesch Kincaid (Another formula for determining reader grade level)
http://process.umn.edu/groups/ppd/documents/information/Writing_Tips.cfm
but can't see it in 2007.
Use Microsoft Word - Tools - Word Count for items 1 and 2 below.
1. Count the number of words in the sample 148
2. Count the number of sentences 13
3. Count the number of big words (3 or more syllables) 33
4. Calculate the average sentence length.
Divide the number of sentences into the number of words 148/13 = 11
5. Calculate the percentage of big words.
Divide the number of words into the number of big words 33/148=22%
6. Add the avg sentence length to the % of big words 11 + 22 = 33
7. Multiply the result by .4 33 x .4 =
Fog Index 13.2
Fog Index - Other Tools
Under the TOOLS Menu, Microsoft Word contains a word counter, grammar
checker and thesaurus you can use to help simplify your writing style.
The grammar checker doesn't use the Fog Index. It uses three Flesch tools to
analyze style:
1. Flesch Reading Ease (100 = easiest, 70-80 = average)
2. Flesch Grade Level (Assigns a grade level reader must have to
understand
your writing, 6 = average)
3. Flesch Kincaid (Another formula for determining reader grade level)
J
Jay Freedman
I am using Word 2007 Beta.
Is it possible to get the "Sentence count" ? (The number of sentences)
Thank you
A count, of somewhat dubious accuracy, is available through the macro
language.
Open the macro editor (Alt+F11), display the Immediate window
(Ctrl+G), paste in the following line, and press Enter.
?ActiveDocument.Sentences.Count
The number will appear on the next line of the window. If you need to
use this often, make this into a complete macro and assign it to a
shortcut or QAT toolbar button:
Sub SentenceCount()
MsgBox ActiveDocument.Sentences.Count & " sentences"
End Sub
When I tried this on a small document with 9 sentences and one
picture, the macro said there were 10 sentences. So if you have
graphics in your document, don't take this count as accurate.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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Jorge Bravo
Great. Thanks.
Jay Freedman said:A count, of somewhat dubious accuracy, is available through the macro
language.
Open the macro editor (Alt+F11), display the Immediate window
(Ctrl+G), paste in the following line, and press Enter.
?ActiveDocument.Sentences.Count
The number will appear on the next line of the window. If you need to
use this often, make this into a complete macro and assign it to a
shortcut or QAT toolbar button:
Sub SentenceCount()
MsgBox ActiveDocument.Sentences.Count & " sentences"
End Sub
When I tried this on a small document with 9 sentences and one
picture, the macro said there were 10 sentences. So if you have
graphics in your document, don't take this count as accurate.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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newsgroup so all may benefit.
J
Jay Freedman
For future reference:
- Go to Word Options > Proofing, look in the grammar section, and
check the option "Show readability statistics". When you spell-check
the document, the number of sentences will appear among the other
counts in the dialog. You may have to click the Recheck Document
button to make Word discard previous spell check results in order to
display the dialog.
- Steps 3 through 7 in the cited material have to be done manually.
Neither Word 2003 nor Word 2007 gives you any method for counting
syllables. (Inside the Flesch computations it must count them or at
least estimate them, but this isn't available externally.)
- In Word 2003, the word count appears in the Tools > Word Count
dialog. In Word 2007, the same dialog appears in Review > Proofing >
Word Count. For some reason, this dialog doesn't include the sentence
count.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.
- Go to Word Options > Proofing, look in the grammar section, and
check the option "Show readability statistics". When you spell-check
the document, the number of sentences will appear among the other
counts in the dialog. You may have to click the Recheck Document
button to make Word discard previous spell check results in order to
display the dialog.
- Steps 3 through 7 in the cited material have to be done manually.
Neither Word 2003 nor Word 2007 gives you any method for counting
syllables. (Inside the Flesch computations it must count them or at
least estimate them, but this isn't available externally.)
- In Word 2003, the word count appears in the Tools > Word Count
dialog. In Word 2007, the same dialog appears in Review > Proofing >
Word Count. For some reason, this dialog doesn't include the sentence
count.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.
S
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Unless sentence count is really hooked into grammatical analysis, it can
really only be a count of text strings between terminal punctuation marks.
Since these would (without grammatical analysis) include periods following
abbreviations, I don't see how it could be very accurate. Given that the
readability statistics claim to be based (at least in part) on number of
words in a sentence, I assume there is some grammatical analysis involved
(which is not involved in simple word/character counts).
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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all may benefit.
really only be a count of text strings between terminal punctuation marks.
Since these would (without grammatical analysis) include periods following
abbreviations, I don't see how it could be very accurate. Given that the
readability statistics claim to be based (at least in part) on number of
words in a sentence, I assume there is some grammatical analysis involved
(which is not involved in simple word/character counts).
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
C
Cro-Code
Besides word and sentence count, you may probably be interested in
estimating the readability and style of text in more deep way. The
program called Textanz will calculate overall statistics and
word/phrase frequencies from any content. Text can be copy-pasted from
any application (including MS Word) for analysis.
http://www.cro-code.com/textanz.jsp
estimating the readability and style of text in more deep way. The
program called Textanz will calculate overall statistics and
word/phrase frequencies from any content. Text can be copy-pasted from
any application (including MS Word) for analysis.
http://www.cro-code.com/textanz.jsp
G
Guest
Okay, what if you have checked "readability statistics" and they do not
show? I am using 2007 also, and have yet to have readability statistics show
up after a Style & Grammar check.
I do like the fact you can highlight a chunk of verbiage and see the word
count at the bottom of the screen.
show? I am using 2007 also, and have yet to have readability statistics show
up after a Style & Grammar check.
I do like the fact you can highlight a chunk of verbiage and see the word
count at the bottom of the screen.
J
Jay Freedman
I don't know. Word 2007 hasn't been around long enough to develop a
bag of tricks for fixing all the things that can go wrong (and it
often isn't worth developing those tricks for a beta, because many of
the problems will disappear in the final release).
The usual scattershot techniques might work: try starting in safe
mode; rename or delete normal.dotm; rebuild the Data key in the
registry. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm (the
techniques there are good for more than just startup problems).
bag of tricks for fixing all the things that can go wrong (and it
often isn't worth developing those tricks for a beta, because many of
the problems will disappear in the final release).
The usual scattershot techniques might work: try starting in safe
mode; rename or delete normal.dotm; rebuild the Data key in the
registry. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm (the
techniques there are good for more than just startup problems).