Wordcounter?

[Jared Goodwin]

Round 2 rules wrote:

Note that if you hit the Preview button, the message board software will tell you what the word count is for your item, which gives you a chance to edit it down if it's over the word count.

Where does it do this? I'm looking at a preview page right now and it doesn't show any wordcount that I can see.

[JaredSmith113]

A Man In Black wrote:

Round 2 rules wrote:

Note that if you hit the Preview button, the message board software will tell you what the word count is for your item, which gives you a chance to edit it down if it's over the word count.

Where does it do this? I'm looking at a preview page right now and it doesn't show any wordcount that I can see.

I've never seen it do that either. What I did was put something into Preview, then copy the version out of preview back into a new Word document and run Word Count on that. So all your bold/italics/etc would show up but the BBCode for it wouldn't. The judges are using Word to do the word count after all.

Nice name, btw.

[Jared Goodwin]

JaredSmith113 wrote:

've never seen it do that either. What I did was put something into Preview, then copy the version out of preview back into a new Word document and run Word Count on that. So all your bold/italics/etc would show up but the BBCode for it wouldn't. The judges are using Word to do the word count after all.

I'm running it through a word counter on my own, but I figured they should know that their wordcounter isn't working (or isn't obvious, at least).

[Sean K Reynolds]

I can't test it myself, but I think the word-counter only appears in the preview when submitting something to the competition. I'll check with Gary and Ross.

[Gary Teter]

The word counter should be available later today or tomorrow.

[Sean K Reynolds]

Ahh, I'm ahead of the curve. :)