Question re: the "Writer" application in OpenOffice

[Orrex]

Does it have a line-count function? I know how to do a word-count, and I know how to change the display so that it shows the line-count to the left of the text, but is there a simple way to pull a line-count without changing the display?

This is one of those many useful and super-simple functions in MS Word that seem to have vanished from OpenOffice, unless I'm just missing it?

[LiberalEsto]

1. Number every line

and that will give you a count

http://sccc.org.au/archives/2067

[Orrex]

3. Well, that's kind of exactly what I don't want to to, but thanks!

[LiberalEsto]

5. You can cancel it

by unchecking the little box that says Show lines

[Orrex]

6. But follow me here...

OpenOffice
1. Show lines
2. Go to end of document, find line #
3. Un-show lines
4. Find wherever you were before you decided to count the lines
5. Done

MS Word
1. Press "Word Count" button
2. Done

It's not that it's impossible or greatly difficult, but there's no reason at all that it shouldn't be a one-step-and-done process.

[LiberalEsto]

8. Of course it should

You should have seen me cussin, trying to create an address spreadsheet in OO and then print address labels for Xmas cards last week. Finally managed it after finding an old tutorial for an old version of OO. I had to figure out a number of steps it omitted, by trial and error. I could have hand-written them in half the time, but my handwriting is awful.

And then trying to add several addresses to the spreadsheet, but unable to figure out how to edit it. I still haven't figured out how.

[Orrex]

9. Gaah! Don't get me started!

I'm a wizard in Excel, and it drives me absolutely bat-shit when I try to execute any number of basic functions in OO's knock-off, only to find out that they're just about impossible. I can't imagine why the designers--or how any one designer over the years--hasn't implemented these simple processes.

OO is nominally put forth as a viable alternative to MS Office, so it's all the more maddening when essential user functions are turned into twisted, arcane rituals!

[hobbit709]

2. See if this helps. OpenOffice is now LibreOffice

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/6084/counting-the-number-of-lines/

[Orrex]

4. Ah! That might just do it!

I recently added an app to enable easy management of the "recently opened" document list--I should have thought of this myself. Thanks!

[valerief]

7. Thanks! I didn't know I could get the number of lines from File/Properties/Statistics

and then clicking Update. Easy peasy.

[Orrex]

10. Ok, I've now had the chance to implement it

And it was exactly what I needed! Thanks a ton!

[eppur_se_muova]

11. OpenOffice and LibreOffice are separate efforts ... LibreOffice is open source, IIRC

The forking of LO from OO came because OO is no longer truly 'open' in that sense. The folks at LO want to maintain a standard of purity on that issue.

[hobbit709]

12. The real OpenOffice became LibreOffice when Oracle took over Sun.

I'm talking about the original open source product not what Oracle is pushing now.