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nickravo1@gmail.com - 15 Nov 2006 00:12 GMT

How do I get a word count of a draft e-mail in Apple mail? There has to
be a way.

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dorayme - 15 Nov 2006 01:42 GMT

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> How do I get a word count of a draft e-mail in Apple mail? There has to
> be a way.

One way is to paste into a word processor that you know has one
(like Clarisworks 4! Or NeoOffice... in the latter it is a
command, in the former, it is part of the spell check box if I
recall)

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Calum - 15 Nov 2006 01:58 GMT

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> <1163549549.143986.20270@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
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> command, in the former, it is part of the spell check box if I
> recall)

A neater option would be to download WordService from Devon Technologies:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/files/WordService.tgz

Once installed, it can be used from any Cocoa app (which includes Mail),
and its many functions include a word count of the currently selected text.

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dorayme - 15 Nov 2006 03:23 GMT

> > In article
> > <1163549549.143986.20270@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
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> Once installed, it can be used from any Cocoa app (which includes Mail),
> and its many functions include a word count of the currently selected text.

Actually, even neater is compose, select all the text and go to
Services and choose "Statistics". This may be built into your OS,
I am on Tiger. Discovered this while exploring your option, Calum.

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dorayme - 15 Nov 2006 04:17 GMT

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> > > In article
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> Services and choose "Statistics". This may be built into your OS,
> I am on Tiger. Discovered this while exploring your option, Calum.

I might have made an error in assuming Statistics and other
things were in Services prior to downloading WordService.tgz? I
downloaded and expanded and opened the folder but did not install
anything as per instructions. Yet, there was a file that seemed
to be installed today in Library? So now I am thinking, somehow
it installed it auto when I simply expanded the downloaded tgz
and expanded into a folder on the desktop and simply opened the
folder and did nothing else! Anyway, bottom line is the
Services/stats route to word count - as you imply. I am mighty
puzzled now about what happened.

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Calum - 16 Nov 2006 01:40 GMT

> I might have made an error in assuming Statistics and other
> things were in Services prior to downloading WordService.tgz?

The WordService.tgz download contains the Statistics service. Anything
else on your Services menu was there beforehand.

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Heath Raftery - 15 Nov 2006 02:00 GMT

> How do I get a word count of a draft e-mail in Apple mail? There has to
> be a way.

Apple-a, Apple-c
Apple-Tab to BBEdit (or equivalent)
Get Info (or equivalent)

Or... construct the email in BBEdit first, and only move to Mail when
you wish to send.

Or... if you find yourself doing this from Mail a lot, a small
AppleScript or service would be just the ticket.

Or... if you normally have Terminal open, "pbpaste | wc" will give the
info you require for whatever is on the clipboard. That way it doesn't
matter what app you're in, you just Apple-a, Apple-c, Apple-Tab to
Terminal, type "pbpaste | wc" or your short alias, and voila!

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