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To anyone who works with words, [[Adobe Acrobat]] is an indispensable tool. If you are as obsessed with judging brevity as I am, you will have noticed it has no [[word count]] function. You would not think it is beyond the wit of Adobe’s developers to put one in. But no. In a software package that has been around since 1984, they’ve never thought to include a word counter. | To anyone who works with words, [[Adobe Acrobat]] is an indispensable tool. If you are as obsessed with judging brevity as I am, you will have noticed it has no [[word count]] function. You would not think it is beyond the wit of Adobe’s developers to put one in. But no. In a software package that has been around since 1984, they’ve never thought to include a word counter. | ||
But there ''is'' a way of natively counting words in Acrobat. It is the most ludicrous thing you will ever see. Here, for lovers of the fantastically absurd, it is: | But there ''is'' a way of natively counting words in Acrobat — not, sadly, the “Reader” version, but it does work in . It is the most ludicrous thing you will ever see. Here, for lovers of the fantastically absurd, it is: | ||
'''STEP ONE''': Open your Adobe Acrobat File. | '''STEP ONE''': Open your Adobe Acrobat File. |