Find frequently used words

Reductio ad Absurdum.

Good luck with the creating by statistics!

Probably that might just work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffkYD2_uTzg

Peter

btw Is this R rated material you are writing, or don't spellcheckers work on malapropisms?

I agree with Peter.

But if you really want a count of how many times each word is used in a document, the process is not all that difficult using Pages AND Numbers (but it is tedious). Result shown for a short work that should be recognized by most with any English background.

The result shown includes the optional steps for a shorter list (each distinct word shown only once).

1. Copy the text and paste it into a new Pages word processing document.
2. Use Find/Replace to Find all occurrences of two contiguous spaces ( ) and Replace them with a single space ( ). Repeat until Find/Replaces reports none found.
3. Use Find/Replace to Find all occurrences of a space, and Replace each with a return.
4. Select the resulting list and Copy.
5. Switch to a New Numbers document.
6. Click on cell B2* and Paste. the list will fill column B of the table (maximum about 65 000 words)
7. Click on C2 and enter the formula =COUNTIF(B,""&B2)
8. Click the column reference Tab for column C to select the whole column, then command-click cell C1 to remove it from the selection.
9. Go Insert > Fill > Fill Down to fill the formula into all of column C below C2.
10. Click the Reorganize button to show the Reorganize dialogue.
11. In the Sort section, choose:
    Column C Descending then click + and choose:
    Column B Ascending
12. (for a shortened list)
    Add Column D.
    Formula in D2, then filled down as described above: =B2=B1
    in the Filter section of Reorganize, set the following:
    Column D is FALSE
    Click to check the checkbox.

Peter's still correct, though; this tool isn't likely to make anyone a better writer, and the time would be better spent rereading the work with an ear to hackneyed and repetitive phrases (and other flaws).

Regards,

Barry

Not in Pages.

A simple read and re-edit is a better use of your time. All this hand holding by software is not producing better writing, quite the contrary.

Anymore than spending your life in a wheelchair will make you a good runner.

Peter

Regina

On especially wet and grey days, like today, I like to go to the symmetry and pay my respects at the unmarked mass graves of all the sub-editors who were mass acred in the grate DTP purges of the '90s and berried under a liar of lime.

Never to be herd of again!

Peter