word count in Text Edit

[skeeter08]

Maybe it's just me but I've looked all over to find a word count in Text Edit. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Text Edit Version 1.5 (244) Thanks in advance.

 

[bigandy]

Bundles > Text > Statistics for (selection or document, depending on what's highlighted).

Or Control + Shift + N.

 

[Ashka]

Maybe it's just me but I've looked all over to find a word count in Text Edit. Can anyone point me in the right direction. Text Edit Version 1.5 (244) Thanks in advance.

TextEdit can do many things but I don't believe work count is one of them.

 

[miles01110]

Just open Terminal, navigate to the directory the file is in, and type

wc -w <file name>

Should output something like:

838 <file name>

which means it has 838 strings (words).

 

[mogzieee]

Sorry, don't think there's a way.

I just copy/paste into Pages or Word and use their word count.

 

[Chamberlin22]

Go to Spotlight and type in AppleScript Editor
open it
type exactly this

tell application "TextEdit"
count words of document 1
end tell

then click run
there ya go

 

[krissserz]

NanoCount

There you go!

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/16328/nanocount

 

[SamEllens]

Go to Spotlight and type in AppleScript Editor
open it
type exactly this

tell application "TextEdit"
count words of document 1
end tell

then click run
there ya go

It's great that they have provided this feature, but why does it have to be so stupid to access?

"It just works" eh?

 

[Amazing Iceman]

Try TextWrangler instead. It's free and full featured text editor. Great for programmers too.

Text statistics will appear in the status bar at the bottom of the window. Char count / Word count, plus other info I'm not familiar with.
You can also Get Info on the document you are editing by using the menu.

 

[GGJstudios]

Since this 3-year-old thread was resurrected, I'll add this:

http://www.wordcounttool.com/

 

[James_C]

I love iA Writer, it has a beautiful minimalist interface. It has a full screen mode as well as a one sentence focus mode. The App has complete iCloud integration and providing full sync support with a companion iPad App. The App has mark down support as well, so great for drafting blog posts.

 

[ixodes]

Try TextWrangler instead. It's free and full featured text editor. Great for programmers too.

Text statistics will appear in the status bar at the bottom of the window. Char count / Word count, plus other info I'm not familiar with.
You can also Get Info on the document you are editing by using the menu.

Text Wrangler is excellent. Fast & stable.

 

[bobsbarricades]

how do I turn that apple script into a service or something that will show up in my textedit app bar or something.

 

[therationalist]

Wow..ran into the same problem recently. Found a better one with frequency calculator built in.

Word count