From the course: Type Tips
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Word counts in InDesign
- [Nigel] Welcome to Type Tips. I'm Nigel French. This week, I have a quick tip about doing word counts in InDesign. As I'm sure you know, you can use the info panel to do a word count. You choose your type tool. You click inside the story. There's a brief pause and then we see the number of words, characters, lines and paragraphs in that story. Fair enough. That's very useful. But what if we want to do a word count of the whole document? This document, many pages made up of many stories. Just on this first page alone, we have a story here. Here's another story. There's a caption down here, that's another story. Another caption here. I want a word count of everything but I don't want to have to add up all of the stories. So here's what I can do. I can come to the edit menu and find change and I'm going to perform a GREP find change. So make sure you click on GREP. This is the GREP pattern that you want to…
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