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Diego Tronca France Local time: 16:07 Member (2006) English to Italian + ...
May 26, 2020
Hi all,
How can you count the number of characters (excluding spaces) in the track changed text of a Word doc? I have the previous Word doc, and the newer Word doc with the changes done in Track changes. I need to know how many characters (without counting the spaces) were inserted in the new document.
Thanks. Diego
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Michael Davies Denmark Local time: 16:07 Member (2009) Danish to English + ...
... number of characters inserted in the new document
May 26, 2020
I'm not sure if this will give you the required result but could you not calculate the difference in the number of characters between the original document (without changes) and a copy of this with the additional characters inserted (you would have to accept all changes). Both figures can be available from Word (use Word's help function if you are not familiar with how to get the character count).
Hope this helps,
Michael
Diego Tronca
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Diego Tronca France Local time: 16:07 Member (2006) English to Italian + ...
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... number of characters inserted in the new document 12:07
May 26, 2020
Thanks. The problem is that there are quite a few deletions as well, so I can't really compare the two documents.
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Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 16:07 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
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May 26, 2020
Diego Tronca wrote: I need to know how many characters (without counting the spaces) were inserted in the new document.
So, if three characters were deleted and three other characters were added, then do you want "3" or "6" as the answer?
Diego Tronca
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Diego Tronca France Local time: 16:07 Member (2006) English to Italian + ...
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May 26, 2020
Samuel, the ideal would be to separate the deletions from the insertions, and only count the characters of the insertions.
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Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 16:07 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
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May 26, 2020
Diego Tronca wrote: The ideal would be to ... only count the characters of the insertions.
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RobinB United States Local time: 10:07 German to English
PractiCount
May 26, 2020
Diego Tronca wrote: Hi all, How can you count the number of characters (excluding spaces) in the track changed text of a Word doc?
I've been using PractiCount for this for very many years. In fact, I'll be using it to calculate a quote today. Sometimes it's a bit slow with very large documents, but it always works, and it's always totally accurate.
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Diego Tronca France Local time: 16:07 Member (2006) English to Italian + ...
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May 27, 2020
Hi all,
Thanks for all your answers. I've decided to ask my client to do it for me, since they have a huge DTP department.
Diego
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