Display of many sections goes off the end ofthescreen

[berwynhoyt]

David Timmsdale said:

• I really like Wordcounter, but when I get to about 11 chapters, each of 2000+ characters, the display goes off the edge of the screen and I can only see the first 10 word counts. When it reaches the edge of the window, it needs to either create a second row or scroll to the left.
  I've included a screen grab to illustrate the issue:
  

[berwynhoyt]

Here's an option that you can do yourself using existing addon features. Create a footer that lists all the chapters and their word counts (you can always remove the footer after you've finished writing your document). You do that as follows:

• First add all your bookmarks into the document and press the addon hotkey (Ctrl-Alt-w). This will create "User Field" variables internal to the document -- one for each section -- that contain the w-word count for that section. Now all you need to do is display these fields.
• Create a footer to show these on every page (menu Insert/Header and Footer/Footer/All). For example, the footer could look like the following:

  ch1= ch2=
  ch3= ch4=

• Then put your cursor after each = sign in turn and go to Insert/Field/More Fields (or press Ctrl-F2). The Fields window shown below will pop up. Select Type User Field which will display a list of fields called Wordcount_xxx where xxx is your section name. Select the wordcount for the section that you want to insert after that particular = sign, and click Insert at the bottom:

Each time you press the addon hotkey Ctrl-Alt-w, the field numbers will automatically update.

If you want to be able to see these fields on every page, insert the fields into a footer instead of a cover page as I have shown above. You can always remove the footer when you're finished writing your document.