AnyCount produces automatic word counts, character counts, line counts, and page counts for all common file formats. Supports .DOC, .RTF, .XLS, .PPT, .PPS, .HTM, .CSV, .PDF, .TXT, .ZIP formats, characters with spaces, and characters without spaces.
Files window is the first window, which you see immediately after running AnyCount:
You can add files with supported extensions (.RTF, .DOC, .XLS, .PPT, .PDF, .XLS, .CSV, .HTM, .HTML, .TXT, .ZIP) 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, .RTF (Microsoft® Word for Windows, Microsoft® Word for Macinthosh, other word processors). |
| • | .XLS (Microsoft® Excel). |
| • | .CSV (Microsoft® Excel, other spreadsheet software). |
| • | .PPT, .PPS (Microsoft® PowerPoint). |
| • | .HTM, .HTML (Hypertext Markup Language file format). |
| • | .PDF (Adobe® Acrobat and Adobe® Acrobat reader). |
| • | .TXT (various word processors). |
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 counts, line counts, page or character counts for documents you have selected:
After word count is completed, results are displayed in the table:
After word 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.
Note: AnyCount is avaliable for download from http://www.anycount.com
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