[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 117122] New: Word Count option to exclude footnotes, endnotes and/ or inline citations

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            Bug ID: 117122
           Summary: Word Count option to exclude footnotes, endnotes
                    and/or inline citations
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: declan.brenn at gmail.com

Feature Request for Writer: Word count limits in academic writing often exclude
text that appears in footnotes and endnotes and sometimes inline citations. The
Microsoft Word word count function ('Review->Word_Count' in v2010) has an
option to 'Include/Exclude textboxes, footnotes and endnotes'. This allows the
user to switch instantly between the total number of words in the entire
document and the number of words excluding footnotes/endnotes. Such documents
often have several hundred words referencing sources in footnotes/endnotes.

A previous response to this feature request in this forum included a link to
the following suggestion:

Get a word count for just the Text Body paragraph style: Open Word Count..
Tools --> Word Count & move it to the side... then... Find & Replace --> More
Options --> Tick 'Search for Styles' --> Search For 'Text Body' --> Find All
Then the word count is displayed the word count window under 'Current
selection'.

That works if the Default Style is the only style used in the body of the
document. However, many documents will have chapter headings, section headings
and sub-headings etc., which would also be excluded by the above method. If all
that is required is a rough estimate, that may not be a problem; but the
current word count feature implementation is neither entirely fit for this
purpose, nor is it straightforward.

An enhanced word count function, similar to the one in MS Word, would enable
Writer to deliver an accurate word count for an academic document if it had the
option to exclude footnotes/endnotes in a way that is both convenient and easy
to use.

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