How Anycount works
Files window is the first window, which you see immediately after launching AnyCount:
You can add files with supported extensions (.RTF, .DOC, .WPD, .XLS, .PPT, .PPS, .PDF, .CSV, .HTM, .HTML, .XML, .MIF, .TXT, .ZIP, .ODT, .SDW, .SXW, .ODS, .SDC, .SXC, .ODP, .SDD, .SXI, .HLP, .CHM) by clicking Add button. AnyCount automatically sorts them into pages with icons according to their file type.
If you would like to remove some file from the list, select it and click Remove button. Clicking Clear button completely empties list of files to be counted. After you have finished selecting files to be counted, you can either click Settings button first to view/adjust counting settings, or click Count! button immediately, if you are happy with counting settings you have set before:
When you are in Settings window, you can adjust count settings for each of the file types of files you have selected on Files screen:
• .DOC (Microsoft® Word for Windows, Microsoft® Word for Macintosh, other word processors)
• .RTF (Microsoft® Word for Windows, Microsoft® Word for Macintosh, other word processors)
• .WPD (WordPerfect text format)
• .XLS (Microsoft® Excel)
• .CSV (Microsoft® Excel, other spreadsheet software)
• .PPT, .PPS (Microsoft® PowerPoint)
• .HTM, .HTML (Hypertext Markup Language file format)
• .XML (Extensible Markup Language file format)
• .PDF (Adobe® Acrobat and Adobe® Acrobat reader)
• .TXT (various word processors)
• .ZIP (compressed file format)
• .MIF (AdobeFrameMaker Interchange format)
• .ODT (OpenDocument text format, OpenOffiice Writer, StarWriter and other word processors)
• .SDW (StarWriter 3.0 and later)
• .SXW (OpenOffice 1.0 text document)
• .ODS (OpenDocument spreadsheet format, OpenOffice Calc, StarCalc and other)
• .SDC (StarCalc 3.0 and later)
• .SXC (OpenOffice 1.0 Calc)
• .ODP (OpenDocument presentation format)
• .SDD (StarDraw/StarImpress 3.0 and later)
• .SXI (OpenOffice 1.0 Impress)
• .HLP (Microsoft® Winhelp format)
• .CHM (Microsoft® HTML help format)
From Settings screen you can either click Count! button and start processing of selected files by AnyCount Engine or return to file selection screen by clicking on Files button:
After you click Count! button AnyCount engine runs and produces word, line, page or character counts for documents you have selected:
After count is completed, results are displayed in the table:
After count is completed, you can:
• view count results on the screen;
• print count results;
• export count results into .TXT format;
• export count results into .CSV format (which can be opened by Microsoft? Excel and most other spreadsheet software.
>Also, you can change current count units by clicking Units button:
...then click Count! button again and get count on the same files in other count units.
All count units in AnyCount are derived from 3 basic atomic values:
• words
• characters with spaces
• characters without spaces.
You can edit existing count units (for instance, change number of characters in a line or in a page) or create your own count units.
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