ext_19883 ([identity profile] elliemurasaki.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] ffdotnetrants2009-03-23 02:13 am

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When a story is labeled as having 3387 words, its first chapter has (MS Word says) 3858 words, and the remaining chapters do not have negative numbers of words, something is wrong.

re: word count

(Anonymous) 2009-03-23 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I have the opposite problem. My ff count is quite a bit higher than Word's. I discovered that somehow the embedded instructions to format a Word document are being included in the count.