Questions on WordCount & Wrap

[RhondaMW]

Apologies if these have been posted before; I searched and didn't find the answers.

First and most important, is it possible to make textpad count words as I type? And second, how do I set textpad to automatically wrap text? Right now I have to select this option every time I open the program.

Thank you for your help. I'm new to textpad, but I love it so far.

[Bob Hansen]

1. For word wrapping:
From the Main Menu: Configure/Preferences/Document Classes.
For each class as desired, put a checkmark in "Word wrap long lines". (See note below).

2. For word counts:
There is no visible dynamic word counter, but you can check periodically: Press Alt-Enter (or from the Main Menu: View/Document Properties), to see the Document Properties, this does show word count.

OR

From the Main Menu you can press Edit/Insert/Statistics and that will insert some stats including word count. This happens at the cursor position. You could make a hot key macro to move cursot to the end, insert the stats. Then you could delete the stats and continue. Or leave them there until all entry is done and delete all of the inserted lines at the same time..

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NOTE: When making configuration changes I find it best to follow these steps, especially for any changes in Classes:

1. Close all other copies of TextPad.
2. Close all open documents, INCLUDING THE DEFAULT NEW BLANK DOCUMENT.
3. Make the changes you want: Configure/Preferences/......
4. Apply and OK your way out the configurations.
5. Close TextPad.
6. Open TextPad again, and your changes should be good.

[RhondaMW]

Thanks Bob!