More detailed wordcount?

Hi all

I work with a client that usually instructs me to ignore 100% and repetitions, and never confirm 100% nor the repetitions.

This generally is not a problem, but when I work with longer jobs that have thousands of segments with all sorts of different segment statuses, I find it hard to keep track of my progress.

The wordcount shown in the status bar has only New, Draft, Confirmed, and Signed-off. However, depending on the job my client may or may not have the 100% matches confirmed, and auto-translated segments are also lumped into draft (it really shouldn't, IMO) so the draft count is more often than not a completely garbage stat for me.

Is there a way to properly count words in an ongoing job? At the very minimum it needs to differentiate bewteen real draft and unconfirmed repetitions, and preferably also auto-translated segments. I would even settle for just a report that is capable of listing all the different segment statues that exist in my opened files and sum them up individually.

As it stands, trying to gauge progress on bigger jobs is pure guesswork, and it's both annoying and frustrating.

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  • Unknown said:
    The owner of this post is questioning only for AT.
    Does your idea can work for that ? The real file should be complex. I guess..

    I think the problem was distinguising between AT and AT that is a repetition.  By locking the repetitions, apart from the first occurrences, the only AT reported will be the first occurrence and this may be a better indication of the work left to do.  But you're right... the real file is probably more complex so we can only make some suggestions based on a mocked up example.  I did do this, and the WIP report is improved in this regard, but there are may be more complexities to consider with the real file.

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