Is there a way to exclude title, heading and bibliography text from the word count in pages?

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Is there a way to exclude title, heading and bibliography text from the word count in pages?

I've just got the newest version of pages.

The word count includes everything, from titles to endnotes - including the numbers in my sub-headings.

I used to use open office where you could select a style i.e. 'body tex't, and get a word count that didn't include every single word in a document.

Is there a way of doing something similar, or reseting the word count to only 'body text' so I know exactly how long my essays are?

Thanks.

MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)

Posted on Jul 31, 2014 10:18 AM

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VikingOSX

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Jul 31, 2014 4:30 PM in response to KV_14

Unfortunately, no version of Pages has this fine-grained control over document components and their word count, so the answer is no, regarding user changeable settings.

Programmatically, I just told AppleScript to count the words of body text in a currently opened Pages v5.2 document. The count matched the Pages word count for the document. So, no solution there either.

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