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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. | {{a|Technology|}}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. | But there ''is'' a way of natively counting words in Acrobat — not, sadly, the “Reader” version, but it does work in Professional, and sometimes in Standard, depending on your licence. 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. | ||
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In the console window, under your text, you will see the following: | In the console window, under your text, you will see the following: | ||
“There are '''n''' words in this file.” | |||
If you can come up with a more insane way of carrying out an elementary task in a market-leading {{tag|software}} package, do write in. | Now, this will only count every word in the document. It won’t count a single page, selected text or anything useful like that. If you can come up with a more insane way of carrying out an elementary task in a market-leading {{tag|software}} package, do write in. | ||
{{c|Technology}} | {{c|Technology}} | ||