Bug 99189 - Add option to exclude footnotes, endnotes and textboxes and inline citations from word count
Summary: Add option to exclude footnotes, endnotes and textboxes and inline citations ...
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Hossein
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Keywords: topicUI
: 55359 55586 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Footnote-Endnote Word-Count
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Reported: 2016-04-09 20:35 UTC by Henrik
Modified: 2023-12-06 05:35 UTC (History)
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Description Henrik 2016-04-09 20:35:12 UTC
The most common parts of a document that people writing essays and other assignments with a word limit need to exclude from the word count is the text in footnotes, endnotes and textboxes. Please introduce an easy way to exclude those from the word count, perhaps like MS Office does it with a checkbox in the word count dialog. As in MS Office, the word count in the statusbar should also be affected when the checkbox is ticked in the dialog.

Screenshot of the dialog in MS Office:
https://support.content.office.net/en-us/media/33190838-311d-4bb5-b657-32f915cc1871.png

This request is also mentioned in bug 83771, but there it is mentioned together with other features so I thought it best to create a new bug for it.
Comment 1 Cor Nouws 2016-04-09 21:11:38 UTC
Thanks Henrik. Better indeed to have a clear separate bug.
Comment 2 Cor Nouws 2019-03-27 21:23:14 UTC
*** Bug 117122 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Timur 2020-03-23 09:47:38 UTC
*** Bug 55359 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Timur 2020-03-23 09:48:14 UTC
*** Bug 55586 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Tex2002ans 2023-12-05 22:51:13 UTC
A user (AppropriateBat107) at the LibreOffice subreddit just asked for this feature too:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/libreoffice/comments/18bgntf/is_there_any_way_to_do_a_word_count_without/
Comment 6 Dieter 2023-12-06 05:35:07 UTC
Hossein, are you still working on it?

I've removed keyword needsDevEval, that has been added in 2016 without a reason or a comment.