Word count in Indesign

[Guest]

Hi all,

How to get the word count in Adobe Indesing? At present i paste content in word to do this.

Thanks

[amaarora · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Open the info panel (F8) from the windows menu. Select the desired content (entire frame, or only some of the text) to get the required parameter count.

-Aman

[Guest]

Thank you a lot

[paleogenics]

How do you get the word count for the entire document? My book has 60 pages

[Mike Witherell]

Try the script called Count Text.jsx available here:

GitHub - jpobojewski/InDesign-Toolbox: A toolbox of short scripts

Instructions are included a the bottom of the page.

[BobLevine]

If it doesn’t need to be exact, just do a document wide find change. Use a space for both. ID will replace all the spaces with spaces and tell you how many.

H/T to Sandee Cohen for that one.

[fabianw13146246]

this worked for me

[marqaa]

Control + A selects the entire document. Then check Info (F8) to see word count.

[kenk69230275]

Here's a workaround that's more accurate than doing a search & replace for the space character. Export an InDesign document as a PDF. Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat. Export as a Word document. Open in Word and select Word Count from the Tools menu. The number of words appears in a dialogue box.

I tested both methods. I had a document with 3942 words but the search & replace method only showed 3009 spaces.

[paleogenics]

Thanks

[drnicolaj]

That would be because the number of spaces in a sentences is 1 less than the number of words... (e.g. up to ... was 19 words, 18 spaces).

[drnicolaj]

could also do a search and replace for periods and add that number to number of spaces for a more accurate count.