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Editing dictionaries, Counting words – Apple AppleWorks 5 : Mac OS User Manual

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Editing dictionaries

To edit words in your user or hyphenation dictionaries, choose Writing Tools
from the Edit menu, and then choose Edit User Dictionary or Edit Hyphenation
Dictionary. In the dialog box, you can edit dictionary entries, import dictionary
entries from a text file, or export the contents of a dictionary to a text file.
For more information, see onscreen Help.

Counting words

You can count words, paragraphs, and other text elements in any type of
document except communications. To count words, choose Writing Tools from
the Edit menu, and then choose Word Count. A dialog box appears that displays
the number of characters, words, lines, paragraphs, pages, and sections in the
current document.

Note If you select Count Selection in the Word Count dialog box, you get a word
count for the current selection only.

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Choose Index from the

or Help menu and scroll to the entry. Then choose a topic from

the list and click Go To Topic.

In the Help index,

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see:

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modifying dictionaries

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selecting dictionaries

Click to add the entry to
the dictionary

Click to remove an entry
selected in the scrolling list
from the dictionary

Click to expand or collapse
the dialog box

Type a new entry, or edit a
selected entry here

Click a button to import or export
dictionary entries

In the Help index,

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see:

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counting words