Suzanne
Sun Sep 03 14:32:39 CDT 2006
Unless sentence count is really hooked into grammatical analysis, it can
really only be a count of text strings between terminal punctuation marks.
Since these would (without grammatical analysis) include periods following
abbreviations, I don't see how it could be very accurate. Given that the
readability statistics claim to be based (at least in part) on number of
words in a sentence, I assume there is some grammatical analysis involved
(which is not involved in simple word/character counts).
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> For future reference:
>
> - Go to Word Options > Proofing, look in the grammar section, and
> check the option "Show readability statistics". When you spell-check
> the document, the number of sentences will appear among the other
> counts in the dialog. You may have to click the Recheck Document
> button to make Word discard previous spell check results in order to
> display the dialog.
>
> - Steps 3 through 7 in the cited material have to be done manually.
> Neither Word 2003 nor Word 2007 gives you any method for counting
> syllables. (Inside the Flesch computations it must count them or at
> least estimate them, but this isn't available externally.)
>
> - In Word 2003, the word count appears in the Tools > Word Count
> dialog. In Word 2007, the same dialog appears in Review > Proofing >
> Word Count. For some reason, this dialog doesn't include the sentence
> count.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
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> On Sun, 3 Sep 2006 19:08:58 +0200, "Jorge Bravo" <open@closed.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Well, I read the following in:
> >
http://process.umn.edu/groups/ppd/documents/information/Writing_Tips.cfm
> >
> >but can't see it in 2007.
> >
> >Use Microsoft Word - Tools - Word Count for items 1 and 2 below.
> >
> > 1. Count the number of words in the sample 148
> >
> > 2. Count the number of sentences 13
> >
> > 3. Count the number of big words (3 or more syllables) 33
> >
> > 4. Calculate the average sentence length.
> > Divide the number of sentences into the number of words 148/13 =
11
> >
> > 5. Calculate the percentage of big words.
> > Divide the number of words into the number of big words 33/148=22%
> >
> > 6. Add the avg sentence length to the % of big words 11 + 22 = 33
> >
> > 7. Multiply the result by .4 33 x .4 =
> >
> >
> >
> > Fog Index 13.2
> >
> >
> >
> >Fog Index - Other Tools
> >Under the TOOLS Menu, Microsoft Word contains a word counter, grammar
> >checker and thesaurus you can use to help simplify your writing style.
> >
> >The grammar checker doesn't use the Fog Index. It uses three Flesch tools
to
> >analyze style:
> >
> >
> > 1. Flesch Reading Ease (100 = easiest, 70-80 = average)
> >
> > 2. Flesch Grade Level (Assigns a grade level reader must have to
> >understand
> > your writing, 6 = average)
> >
> > 3. Flesch Kincaid (Another formula for determining reader grade level)
> >
> >"Rae Drysdale" <RaeDrysdale@discussions.microsoft.com> escreveu na
mensagem
> >news:991F5D3D-BECA-492D-9EE3-DFA16904FFD6@microsoft.com...
> >> Would counting the number of periods (full stops) give you this
> >> information?
> >> Depends if you have used any abbreviations and punctuated them. Hope
this
> >> helps. I haven't tried 2007 yet.
> >> --
> >> Rae Drysdale
> >>
> >>
> >> "Jorge Bravo" wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am using Word 2007 Beta.
> >>>
> >>> Is it possible to get the "Sentence count" ? (The number of
sentences)
> >>>
> >>> Thank you
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >