How can I get a count of the number of words in a text

Question

As a user I'd like to know how many words are in a particular book or books.

Answer 1

You can open the wordlist and select the book filter for the book or books that you want to count. If you use a priority you should be able to select down to a particular chapter or chapters. With the range you can select specific verses.

Then export the list to an xml file using the menu > export to xml

Open that file in Excel and allow Excel to create an xml table. This will put the data into columns (one of which is Count)

Use =sum(xx:yy)  to generate a sum of all the words in the selected text.

Comments

Here is a video of the process: https://www.loom.com/share/21b31bb8bf37492695e1b27589f75f43?sid=38ee16ad-8b61-4d1b-80aa-12b522e46dbd
Note that the last line number given was given incorrectly, but the concept is still true!