Is it possible to display word count or character count in selected text

[jay fresno]

The Word Count utility counts all words in the document. Is there a way to count the number of characters or words in a piece of selected text?

[Bob_Niland · Accepted solution]

re: Is there a way to count the number of characters or words in a piece of selected text?

Until you get an answer you like better, with the text highlighted, right-click, copy, paste into empty LibreOffice Writer document:
Tools > Word Count

[jay fresno]

I think you answered my question -- it isn't possible to do within FrameMaker 😞

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

I bet it could be scripted though ;>)

[Arnis Gubins]

Rick Quatro has a readabilty scores script that could easily be reconfigured to just provide the word and character counts in a selection.

[reginaldo-hb]

It would be very vomiting if there was this feature in Dreamweaver. It would help a lot.