Is there a way to get a word count in your document, or more specifically in a highlighted area? For example can I highlight a paragraph and get a word count for that paragraph? or is there a way to count the total words in a document? This would improve Coda’s use for things like script writing as …

I’m very much interested in this as well. I currently use Filemaker for article writing (Apple’s answer to Microsoft Access), and have been looking for an online alternative for years. DabbleDB was great, but were bought up by Twitter and shut down. For me to switch to Coda, I would need to have be…

This is probably not an ideal response, and it would definitely be better to just have inbuilt capabilities for things like Word Count, but I have got a workaround that’s at least mostly accurate (and could probably be tweaked to make it more accurate if needed). Basically, I have a Blog CMS in Cod…

Murray – That’s similar to the work-around I was using in AirTable for the lack of a WordCount function. But I am VERY interested in how you set up a blog CMS – I don’t suppose you can share this? Or point to a similar template that already exists?

I’ve tried the Cheddar CMS example, and I honestly can’t make any sense of it. And they seem to want you to cut-and-paste text from one area to another, instead of just editing it in one place.

So it’s very much still a work-in-development, and to be clear I’m not actively pushing or pulling to a website yet, but the general idea goes like this: Set up a table with all the standard “CMS” fields needed for a blog: Title, Summary, Card Summary, Header Image, Body Content, Author, Publishin…

Word Count - Word Processing Features

Maria_Korolov February 15, 2019, 5:33pm 7

Very cool, thanks! I’ve already started playing with it.

A novel writing helper ideas? (Split formula?)

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