With a doc open, go to 'Insert' and scroll down to 'Word Count'. From the small word count panel that appears in the bottom of the document, you can also select character count. What you can't do is to have the lower status bar showing with all the information you need, inckudingn the page count. As an author, I find Pages 5 worse than useless, for that reason. Anyway, I reverted to Pages 4.3 - it was easy to do. If you want to do that, the first thing is to check that Pages 4.3 is still in your system - right click on a doc, select 'Open with.' And if 'Pages 4.3' shows all is well!
Next, open Pages 5 and with it open, rename it, ignoring the warning. The all your docs will revert to Pages 4.3, which is a much better words processor altogether, in my opinion. With a doc open, go to 'Insert' and scroll down to 'Word Count'.
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From the small word count panel that appears in the bottom of the document, you can also select character count. What you can't do is to have the lower status bar showing with all the information you need, inckudingn the page count. As an author, I find Pages 5 worse than useless, for that reason. Anyway, I reverted to Pages 4.3 - it was easy to do. If you want to do that, the first thing is to check that Pages 4.3 is still in your system - right click on a doc, select 'Open with.'
And if 'Pages 4.3' shows all is well! Next, open Pages 5 and with it open, rename it, ignoring the warning. The all your docs will revert to Pages 4.3, which is a much better words processor altogether, in my opinion. When writing books, it helps to keep the number of pages in a chapter within certain limits - word count doesn't do that, because the number of pages is affected by layout (bullets, tables, etc.). When a chapter is too long, many readers start to skim read and might miss important information. I write mainly psychology and psychotherapy texts and it's important that I keep my readers interested!
Also, I sometimes get asked for, say, 500 words on a particular subject and at other times, for a certain number of pages for a journal. Anyway, Pages 4.3 works perfectly for the professional!
Hi jonathan, I struggled with this one as well, as i'm finishing up a PhD thesis and word counts are incredibly important. Through trial and error i found out that words like 'e.g.'
Count as two words and an ampersand (&) doesn't count at all. That being said, i didn't like the fact that the word count always included footnotes and i was dismayed that i couldn't get an accurate count of words in the main body of my text.
That all disappeared yesterday when, by chance, while i was copying a completed chapter and pasting it into my main document, i discovered that Pages can indeed give you an accurate word count excluding the footnotes! Here's all you need to do: 1.
In pages 5.2, make sure that the Word Count function is first enabled by selecting View - Show Word Count from the Pages Menu Bar. (If it's already enabled, it will read View - Hide Word Count, so if that's what it says, then no need to do anything.) 2.
Once enabled, check the Word count that's currently showing at the bottom of the page. That's the word count including your footnotes. Now, place your cursor anywhere within the current document, then hit command+A (for Select All). Your word count now shows the actual number of words within the body of the text only, excluding footnotes!
Hope that helps! Yes, but this doesn't let you get a total word count for an entire document without titles and headings (as 'rishtag' has asked above). For academic writing, it's important to be able to get accurate word counts (which Pages can do), but we often need total word counts without footnotes, titles, headings, added quotes, etc.). Pages can easily give a total word count without the footnotes (as i've mentioned above) all in word quick keyboard command, but cannot also subtract Chapter headings, titles, added quotes word counts from the total. So unless you go through an entire document and only select the text you'd like counted you can't get the count as 'rishtag' has asked. It would be too time consuming for those of us writing theses, dissertations, books and the like to go through a 400-page text, for example, and only select the text we'd like Pages to count words for.
This might work well for shorter documents though. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only. Apple may provide or recommend responses as a possible solution based on the information provided; every potential issue may involve several factors not detailed in the conversations captured in an electronic forum and Apple can therefore provide no guarantee as to the efficacy of any proposed solutions on the community forums. Apple disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions and conduct of any third parties in connection with or related to your use of the site. All postings and use of the content on this site are subject to the.