Word count result very different to MS Word

Ahoy Trados Ninjas! A quick question regarding word count: any idea why the Trados word count shows significantly less characters than MS Word? (even if I choose without spaces in Word - btw, does Trados count with or without spaces?)
Cheers!

Dani

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  • Hi Dani,

    Have you tried the InQuote app from the app store, this can report in lines?

    But in a nutshell Studio counts without spaces in the reports.  Word offers both.  So the InQuote app does an approximation by taking the wordcount and adding the number of words to the number of characters and this gives you approx. the number of characters plus spaces... and even reduce it by the number of segments as well if you want to be closer to Word.  So you could do this yourself easily enough in excel as you have the report showing words and characters in the same same line like this.

    So this is just "number of characters"+"number of words"-"number of segments" and put into a column called "Line Count" in red.  The equivalent text in Word was this:

    Regards

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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