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OpenOffice word count trackerTrack your OpenOffice word count each day, and check the whole story

Apache OpenOffice Writer shows its word count under Tools → Word Count. Falcontext keeps a count of each day beside it, with your goal and streak, and checks the whole story for slips like a name spelled two ways. Nothing is uploaded.

Download for Mac or Windows – it’s free

Mac (macOS 10.13 or later, Apple silicon or Intel) or Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit.

Falcontext beside OpenOffice Writer, with its word count tracker: a slip marked in the text, and its finding open
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How to see the word count in OpenOffice Writer

Writer shows its count here:

  1. Tools → Word Count

    A small window with the selection and the whole document, words and characters. Highlight a passage first to count just that.

What Falcontext adds to the OpenOffice word count

OpenOffice Writer gives you

  • Words and characters for the whole file (Tools → Word Count)
  • The Navigator, if you use heading styles
  • A spell checker and a grammar checker

Falcontext adds

  • What you wrote today. Word Count gives the whole document. Falcontext counts what you added since this morning, keeps your daily goal and works out a finish date.
  • Marked in OpenOffice, fixed there on Windows. Findings are marked over the page in OpenOffice, on Mac and Windows. On Windows, Fix and Fix all change the text through OpenOffice itself.
  • Checks on the whole story. Eyes that change colour, or a scene that slips into another head. Plus tense slips, dialogue tags, filter words and homophones, all with rules, on your own computer.
  • Your .odt, left as it is. Falcontext reads it to count it and never writes it. Nothing is uploaded.
  • Chapters from your headings. Give chapter titles a heading style, and Bird’s Eye lists every chapter’s length next to your target.
  • Who’s where. Which characters are in which chapter, and who’s been missing too long.
  • One history for everything. OpenOffice documents, Word files, Scrivener projects and Google Docs share one streak; a book in several files can be one manuscript (Pro).
  • Focus mode. Writer’s window fills the screen, with today’s count in a small badge (Pro).

Falcontext reads your .odt to count it, on your own computer, and never writes the file: a fix goes through the editor, and only when you press Fix. Your writing is never sent anywhere, and no AI is used on your writing in any way. How your data is handled.

Download for Mac or Windows – it’s free

Tracking your daily OpenOffice word count

Once set up, write in OpenOffice as always.

  1. Download Falcontext for Mac or Windows

    Free. New versions arrive by themselves.

    Download – it’s free

  2. Add your Writer document

    Choose Add…: pick a document from your recent ones, browse for another, or drag the file in.

  3. Tell it what you’re aiming for

    Words a day, and words in total: type yours over the number after each slash. How the goals and streaks work.

  4. Write

    Each time Writer saves, Falcontext counts. Close its window if you like; it keeps counting.

Good to know about the OpenOffice word count

  • Which files: Writer documents (.odt), from Apache OpenOffice or LibreOffice.
  • On the Mac, Falcontext reads OpenOffice’s page as it’s shown to mark findings, so it asks once for Screen Recording. Fix in OpenOffice is on Windows; on the Mac you change a finding yourself.
  • Chapters: give chapter titles a Heading style and they turn up in Bird’s Eye.
  • Linux: no desktop app yet, but the writing pad in Falcontext Perch, the web app, works in any browser.
  • Sync keeps your streak, history and goals the same in the desktop app, the extension and Perch, the web app, through your own Google Drive.
  • The desktop app also tracks Scrivener, Microsoft Word, LibreOffice Writer, Apple Pages and Vellum.

Learn more

How it works

Goals and progressA daily goal, a total and a finish dateStreaksHow your writing days are countedSprintsA timer for your word countBird’s EyeEvery chapter and scene, mappedCharactersWho appears where, and who’s been goneFocus ModeYour draft full screenAll help pagesEvery feature, one page eachWhere it worksEvery editor, and what each gets

Checks writers start with

Filter wordsFelt, saw, knewTelling emotions“She was angry”Dialogue punctuation“Hello.” she said, or “Hello,”?AdverbsHow many is too manyTense and point of viewSlips out of your book’s tenseHomophonesTheir going, poured overAll the checksFree and Pro

Your OpenOffice word count, by the day

Falcontext counts every save and checks the whole story.

Download for Mac or Windows

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