Re: [office] word-count (was Re: [office] Data Grid Size element proposal)

[David Faure <faure@kde.org>]

On Monday 24 November 2008, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> But why is this information saved in the file?

One good reason IMHO is: so that it is accessible to other applications without loading the whole file.
For instance you can move the mouse over a .odt file in a file manager and a tooltip will
tell you some metadata about that file (author, word count, etc) -- without having to parse the whole file.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Qt Software @ Nokia to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).