Word Counter Max for Google Docs™ is a totally free add-on that I wrote to display the live word count of the current document even for lengthy documents of 5000 words or more. Unlike the default word counter, you will be able to set exclusions to ignore certain text and you can generate detailed reports for your document. There's more, whether you need to hit a minimum word count or reduce your word count to be within the limit for your assignment, you can set targets for that. This word counter should be relatively accurate though there may be slight discrepancies since every word counter considers what should be a word differently. Do write in if there are major errors or bugs.
▪︎ Text between parentheses
▪︎ Text between brackets
▪ Text in tables
▪︎ Text with paragraph styles eg. “Title”, “Subtitle”, “Header1”, “Header2”, etc
▪︎ Text in paragraphs starting with x.x eg. “1.2 Introduction into” or “1.5.3 My header”
▪︎ Everything after and including the paragraph starting with Keyword
▪︎ Text in paragraphs starting with Keyword eg. “Content Page”, “Chapter”, “Figure”, etc
▪︎ Count words until cursor*
▪︎ Count words within selection*
▪︎ Count footnotes*
▪︎ Analyses your document and provides a detailed breakdown of word count by chapter or subchapter through the use of paragraph styles.
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▪︎ Minimal
▪︎ Barebones Floating
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