…and all is well. I think.
I just hit a major milestone on my novel today, and what happens? I lose the word count indicator at the bottom of the page. This happened on my last draft, too, as soon as I hit the 100,000 word mark. Poof! 100,000 words, and I don’t get to see the counter tick over, because it’s apparently only five digits long.It’s very disorienting to see that happen. To some extent I rely on word count to let me know when I’ve done enough for one day; if I’m really stuck, I can at least see that my count has gone up, and take heart from that. Now I can’t do that, unless I choose “Word Count” from the Tools menu. Which is something I don’t like to do, because it breaks the flow of writing too much.Maybe this is just another lovely “feature” of Microsoft Word, but I prefer to call it a bug. Because it sure as hell bugs ME.
Congrats on reaching that milestone!
Thanks!
Any idea on how to make that word counter reappear, by any chance? I’m stumped.
Well…you could take your old keyboard, if you have it lying around, and beat Bill Gates over the head until he agrees to have a patch written for this.
Congratulations on getting to the milestone. We are all waiting for the debut. Any hints as to the subject or plot (if fiction)(Oh, I forgot. If it deals with Latin American issues and involves any promises from the EE.UU., then it is by definition fiction) :-).
Jim, I’ve been using Mac laptops for a number of years, so the keyboard is out of the question.
On the other hand, I *do* have an aluminum baseball bat just standing around in the corner, looking lonely…
And yep, it does involve Latin America and the gringos. LOL!
Coming from the editor and publisher’s end, do people like us — and yourself — a favor and break the document up into separate files. We wouldn’t want to look at a file more than 10,000 words at any one time anyway.
That part comes later…once I’ve chopped it. And it will be chopped. And there will be blood. (evil laughter)