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Report with characters including spaces

Hello, dear engineers,

This is a very recurring issue in Switzerland: fees are commonly rated by lines, defined as caracters including spaces divided by 55 (or 50 or else). Unfortunately, the Trados Studio Report (analyze files) is designed for caracters without spaces only. This means very complicated Workarounds to calculate the fees: copy-paste in a word file, conversion sheets in Excel etc.

We absolutely need to:

- get lines/caracters count according to Microsoft Word statistics (including spaces)

- apply this count to other formats, too (ppt, idml, excel)

There's a plugin which almost does this: Target Word Count. But it's not working properly (differences with Microsoft Word Statistics, unable to apply Trados Report (TM matches) to lines etc. See Support Ticket 00843105 and Community question "Trados Studio Trados report: how to deal with caracters INCLUDING spaces"

This would be a great help if you coud fix that.

Thanks,

Aurélie

Aurélie Machut
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    I'll just add a link here since there is what looks like a useful workaround:  RE: Target Word Count 

    I'll also move this into the correct ideas site because this an app. and not part of the product.  That also means that anyone could update this if they have the time and know how to program so there is no need to wait for us to find the time to do it... especially since I can confirm it won't be for some months as we have too many priorities right now that have to take precedence.  The code for this app is opensource and you can find it here: https://github.com/RWS/Sdl-Community/tree/master/TargetWordCount

    I specifically mention the github page because this app wasn't developed by us.  We just took ownership after the translator/project manager who built it moved onto other things and no longer wanted to support it.  It would be great to see some community effort around it!!

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    I'll just add a link here since there is what looks like a useful workaround:  RE: Target Word Count 

    I'll also move this into the correct ideas site because this an app. and not part of the product.  That also means that anyone could update this if they have the time and know how to program so there is no need to wait for us to find the time to do it... especially since I can confirm it won't be for some months as we have too many priorities right now that have to take precedence.  The code for this app is opensource and you can find it here: https://github.com/RWS/Sdl-Community/tree/master/TargetWordCount

    I specifically mention the github page because this app wasn't developed by us.  We just took ownership after the translator/project manager who built it moved onto other things and no longer wanted to support it.  It would be great to see some community effort around it!!

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