Chris - Were your asterisks separated by spaces? My impression is that any character(s) delimited by white space will be counted as a word. - Robert ________________________________ From: Chris J. <rchristopherjohnson@gmail.com> Sent: March 25, 2023 11:00 To: lo user help <users@global.libreoffice.org> Cc: Chris Johnson <rchristopherjohnson@gmail.com> Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer word counts. I've known for a while now that LO Writer's words counts and MS Word counts are close but not the same. I was entering an asterisked scene break just now and noticed the word count increased by three. A little experimenting revealed that Writer counted three asterisks as words. This would account for some of the differing word counts between the two. I've noticed it happening in other areas I haven't narrowed down yet. What all exactly does LO Writer count as words? To a story writer words counts mean something. Thank you. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy