Word Counter Changelog

What's new in Word Counter 2.10.1

Feb 19, 2013
  • Added support for TexShop
  • Added support for odt and docx files
  • Better compatibility with OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
  • Ignoring minor words are now handled appropriately in the frequency counts
  • Ignoring words less than a specific length are now handled appropriatel in the frequency counts
  • Hyphenated words are now handled appropriatey in the frequency counts
  • Minor interface enhancements
  • Fixed an error where a popup dialog saying "location 09b" would sometimes appear

New in Word Counter 2.10 (Feb 2, 2009)

  • Can now calculate multiple readability statistics such as Flesch-Kincaid.
  • Multiple minor interface enhancements.
  • Fixed an issue for counting words with non-standard hyphens such as the em dash and en dash.
  • Fixed a problem with the order of the columns when exporting or printing multiple file counts.
  • When counting text with Microsoft Word 2004, subsets of selected text can now be counted.

New in Word Counter 2.9 (Oct 6, 2008)

  • Added an option to count an e-mail address as a single word or as separate words.
  • Added support for Mori (a digital notebook application).
  • Significant speed increases for word and character counts, especially for large files.
  • Ongoing feedback for file counts has now been removed due to speed increases.
  • Significant speed increases for frequency counts.
  • Significant speed increases for exporting multiple file counts and frequency counts to a file.
  • Improved printing of multiple file counts and frequency counts.
  • Minor interface enhancements.
  • Fixed an error ["Can't make character id 0 into type reference. (-1700)"] that occurred when performing a frequency count in OS X 10.4.

New in Word Counter 2.8 (Aug 12, 2008)

  • Can now count text in PDF documents (OS X 10.5 or higher).
  • Can better handle certain Unicode characters.
  • Fixed a rare error ["NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4 (1)"] that occurred on some machines.
  • Improved accuracy of the display of warning icons for the progress tracker tool.
  • The program now provides ongoing counting feedback for large files.
  • Minor interface enhancements.

New in Word Counter 2.7.1 (May 19, 2008)

  • Fixed a problem where Word Counter could no longer count words with Microsoft Word 2004
  • Added support for OmniOutliner and OmniOutliner Pro
  • Improved the overall accuracy of the word counts
  • Fixed the counting of hyphenated words, which was no longer working in Leopard
  • Improved handling of special characters such as en-dashes and em-dashes

New in Word Counter 2.7 (Feb 26, 2008)

  • Added the ability to set a goal for words and characters and to track progress towards that goal
  • Can now exclude minor words (e.g. "a", "of", "or", "the") from the count
  • Can now close the main window without quitting the program
  • Can now set default font sizes for the application
  • Can now set whether the application should use plain or rich text as a default
  • Now works with the BBEdit application
  • Improved preferences window
  • Improved handling of invalid file types when files are dropped into the main window
  • New Leopard (OS X 10.5) compatible application icon
  • Minor interface enhancements

New in Word Counter 2.6 (Jan 30, 2008)

  • Word Counter is now OS X 10.5 (Leopard) compatible
  • When used with Pages Word Counter can now count all text or a subset of selected
  • text
  • Now works with SubEthaEdit and Text-Edit Plus
  • Minor interface enhancements