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For my work I have to fill in frequent reports online and am often restricted to a certain number of words. Is there a quick way within Safari that I can do a word (and letter) check, or a decent add-in I can install? Thank you
MacBook Pro 15", 10.14
Option 1: Use a bookmarklet. Drag the Word Count bookmarklet in the centre of this page to your bookmarks bar. Select some text and click the bookmarklet. If you don’t use ⌘-1 through ⌘-9 to switch tabs (deselected in Safari > Preferences > Tabs, you can use ⌘ and the number corresponding to the ordinal position of the bookmarklet from left to right in your bookmarks bar. So if the bookmarklet is second from the left the keyboard shortcut would be ⌘-2. Hit the ESC key to dismiss the modal popup.
Option 2: Install the free WordService by DEVONtechnologies from the Mac App Store. Included is the Statistics service which you access from the contextual menu when you Control-click or right-click and scroll to the Services menu item. You can also set a keyboard shortcut by navigating to > System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services. The advantage of this option is that it is system-wide.
Option 1: Use a bookmarklet. Drag the Word Count bookmarklet in the centre of this page to your bookmarks bar. Select some text and click the bookmarklet. If you don’t use ⌘-1 through ⌘-9 to switch tabs (deselected in Safari > Preferences > Tabs, you can use ⌘ and the number corresponding to the ordinal position of the bookmarklet from left to right in your bookmarks bar. So if the bookmarklet is second from the left the keyboard shortcut would be ⌘-2. Hit the ESC key to dismiss the modal popup.
Option 2: Install the free WordService by DEVONtechnologies from the Mac App Store. Included is the Statistics service which you access from the contextual menu when you Control-click or right-click and scroll to the Services menu item. You can also set a keyboard shortcut by navigating to > System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services. The advantage of this option is that it is system-wide.
Unfortunately, no.
Click Safari in the menu bar and then Safari Extensions.
App Store will open showing available extensions.
About Safari Extensions: Get extensions to customize Safari on Mac - Apple Support
You're welcome. My fault for over-explaining. The simpler explanation for option 1 is click on the link "this page" above and drag the bookmarklet (the image with the orange ribbon) to your bookmarks bar and release. Highlight some text and click the bookmark.
Your option 1 confused me but option 2 works perfectly, thank you so much for taking the time to reply to me, it will help me a lot.
Is there a word-count built into safari
