An article in MacWorld today goes into a really clumsy way of counting words in Pages documents. It surprises us that Pages doesn’t have better word-counting capabilities, but there’s a much better solution than the one in that article.

A freeware service called WordService, from Devon Technologies, installs (amongst other things) a “Statistics” item onto the Services menu, available halfway down the application menu. Select some text, choose Statistics, and you’ll get a word count for the selected block. Simple!

WordService is available from Devon Technologies’ freeware services web page.

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