Power point, word count Thread poster: David Wright
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David Wright 
Austria
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Any ideas on how to get an accurate word count for an entire power point file?
| | | | Emma Goldsmith
Spain
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Member (2004)
Spanish to English
| go to properties | Feb 9, 2010 |
Presumably you know how to go to prepare>properties>advanced properties>statistics?
Are you talking about counting words in pictures and things?
Or differences between different versions of Ppt? (I've seen BIG differences between 2003 and 2007).
| | | | David Wright
Austria
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No, I did not know about that (nor did I find it in an admittedly quick search through the help files)
(office 2007, by the way)
[Edited at 2010-02-09 09:03 GMT]
| | | | Woodstock (X)
Germany
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| Right-click the file and look in Properties | Feb 9, 2010 |
(I think that's what it's called - not sure about English name, as I use the German versions), and open the Statistics tab. There's a wordcount there, but I've never checked it against another wordcount program, so I can't vouch for the accuracy.
There used to be a way to save ppt files as Word files and use the Word wordcount option, but I don't know if it's still possible to do that - this was a number of years ago with an older MS Office version, and nowadays I usually just go wi... See more (I think that's what it's called - not sure about English name, as I use the German versions), and open the Statistics tab. There's a wordcount there, but I've never checked it against another wordcount program, so I can't vouch for the accuracy.
There used to be a way to save ppt files as Word files and use the Word wordcount option, but I don't know if it's still possible to do that - this was a number of years ago with an older MS Office version, and nowadays I usually just go with the wordcount given in the ppt Statistics window.
Using Trados or some other CAT analysis tool might work on a ppt file, but I've never tried it, so I'm not sure if that's a possibility. Someone else might be able to answer that.
PS: I see someone else has answered, but there might still be some useful info here. ▲ Collapse
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Laurent KRAULAND (X)
France
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| Be careful with that | Feb 9, 2010 |
Woodstock wrote:
Using Trados or some other CAT analysis tool might work on a ppt file, but I've never tried it, so I'm not sure if that's a possibility. Someone else might be able to answer that.
I am under the impression that some CAT tools as well as word count software will count the links to images as words, so it is better to use the Properties option.
| | | | Woodstock (X)
Germany
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| CAT tool wordcount for ppt | Feb 9, 2010 |
Laurent KRAULAND wrote:
I am under the impression that some CAT tools as well as word count software will count the links to images as words, so it is better to use the Properties option.
Thanks for clarifying. In that case it's a good thing I've never tried it!
| | | | Tony M
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I've always found the in-built wordcount to be often wildly adrift, and since I use Werecat anyway to extract my text for translation, I simply do my word count in Word anyway — though of course you do have to be careful to delete all the tags first! However, as they all have the same style, it's easy enough to get into the habit of searching-and-repalcing for 'any character' in that style, and replacing with nothing, which then yields a clean text to wordcount (either in Word, or of course, i... See more I've always found the in-built wordcount to be often wildly adrift, and since I use Werecat anyway to extract my text for translation, I simply do my word count in Word anyway — though of course you do have to be careful to delete all the tags first! However, as they all have the same style, it's easy enough to get into the habit of searching-and-repalcing for 'any character' in that style, and replacing with nothing, which then yields a clean text to wordcount (either in Word, or of course, in your favourite wordcount utiliy).
I've found this to be a reliable and consistent method, which has certainly saved me a lot of money by avoiding under-billing! ▲ Collapse
| | | | Almir Comor MITI
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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| text extractor | Feb 9, 2010 |
There is a small add-on for Power Point that extracts ALL the text from a PPT file into a Word file so you can count the words.
You can download it here (it's free):
http://ginstrom.com/software/powerpoint2doc/
[Edited at 2010-02-09 16:35 GMT]
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Sabine Braun
United Kingdom
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| Thanks for the tip! | Feb 9, 2010 |
Almir Comor MITI wrote: There is a small add-on for Power Point that extracts ALL the text from a PPT file into a Word file so you can count the words. You can download it here (it's free): http://ginstrom.com/software/powerpoint2doc/ [Edited at 2010-02-09 16:35 GMT]
I just downloaded it and it does the job!
| | | | David Wright
Austria
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TOPIC STARTER | And thanks from me too! | Feb 9, 2010 |
Does exactly what I was looking for
| | | | | Same price per word for ppt? | Feb 9, 2010 |
While interested to find that it is quite straightforward after all to extract a word count from a ppt doc, I have no plans to change my billing system for work in this format, which is by the hour, since it is far more time consuming than, say, Word format.
| | | | | You can save from PowerPoint directly tp RTF or TXT as well | Feb 9, 2010 |
Almir Comor MITI wrote:
There is a small add-on for Power Point that extracts ALL the text from a PPT file into a Word file so you can count the words.
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Mirelluk
United Kingdom
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| Superthanks! | Feb 15, 2010 |
Almir Comor MITI wrote: There is a small add-on for Power Point that extracts ALL the text from a PPT file into a Word file so you can count the words. You can download it here (it's free): http://ginstrom.com/software/powerpoint2doc/ [Edited at 2010-02-09 16:35 GMT]
It works like a dream. Thanks a lot!
Mirella
| | | | AnneMarieG
France
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that's great!!
Thanks a lot!
Anne-Marie
| | | | | One more tool | Mar 15, 2010 |
AnyCount does the job, without the need to export and allows to customize what parts of the file to count. It supports other common formats too.
Available for download at http://www.anycount.com/download.html
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