Text Statistics Dialog Box

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The Text Statistics dialog box provides information on the number of characters, words, and the number of occurrences of each different word within a text. If you select text, that information will be extracted from that portion of the document. If no text is selected, then the whole document is analyzed.

The first part of the dialog box displays the following fields:

·	Characters   The figure is based on the total number of characters encountered in the text, including spaces and tabs. Each tab counts as one character only, not the space it occupies.

·	Words   Only words composed entirely of alphabetic characters are counted here.

·	Others   Any word that is not counted in the previous field is added here. For example, numbers or words that are a mix of alphabetic characters and numbers.

To display the frequency of occurrences of individual words, click on the More button. Depending on the size of the text to analyze, this process may take some time to display the result. At the end of the list, you can read the total number of different words encountered in the text. Use the list's shortcut menu if you want to change the sorting order or copy the content to the clipboard or save it to a file.