Is there a way within a Text Edit document that you can carry out a word count similar to Microsfot Word? I'm increasingly using this bit cannot find a wat to do this.
Any help is greatly appreciated..
J
MacBook Pro with Retina display
Not natively, however easy enough to use AppleScript
see: TextEdit word count
An alternative is another light wait text editor Bean which has native word count
(it appears latest development was 2013, but you could try it?)
Nice CT !
Here is the following through for clarrification:
Thanks leroydouglas but I do not have the "insert pattern" option available on my dropdown..
Start with a blank search field after you pull up with command F.
If no "insert pattern" then select "full word". This seems to work for both plain.txt and rich text.rtf
Thanks, that does the trick!
Text Edit document word count?
