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.
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.
re: word count
Date: 2009-03-23 04:02 pm (UTC)