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I just wrote a document with about 60 words but the word count shows ZERO?
Is this a bug, or if not, what should I do?
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
Did you select just a portion of the text?
Then it is going to count just what you selected.
If you open the document without selecting anything *but having the Show Word Count open, it should show all the words in your document.
I selected a paragraph with about 60 words but the word-count box at bottom left always shows zero.
Same if I don't select any sub-part of the document 00 word-count is always zero.
Must be a bug??
What version of Pages is it?
Also, try creating a new document and see, as you type, if the word count changes.
Pages version 5.6.1
I started a new document and the word-count box worked correctly.
So I then did a copy-and-paste from the buggy Pages document into the new doc and it worked perfectly (91 words).
It was the first time I was using Pages (as I had got fed up with persistent bugs in Microsoft Word-for-Mac that are never going to be fixed),
I had used a table to have two authors & addresses side-by-side at the top of the document. At first I didn't notice the word count box but when I discovered it, it always read zero.
But since the new doc is OK I'm going to ignore the bug behavior of Pages in the original document.
Thanks for suggestions.
(in Apple Pages) Word count is zero!!
