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

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca>]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 17:56 -0500, robert_weir@us.ibm.com wrote:
> "Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca> wrote on 11/24/2008 
> 05:28:30 PM:
> > 
> > Warren,
> > 
> > It seems to me that your main argument against inclusion of an indicator
> > of how large the grid was when the file was saved is that programs can
> > figure it out parsing all formulae and seeing whether a cell outside the
> > current range is referenced.
> > 
> > If this is seen as a valid reason against this inclusion I wonder why
> > items such as 
> > <text:page-count> 
> > <text:paragraph-count> 
> > <text:word-count> 
> > <text:character-count> etc
> > are included in the standard? All of that information can be counted
> > even faster than parsing all formulas.
> > 
> 
> 
> Oh, that reminds me.  We need to better define word-count and 
> character-count.  This came up at the interoperability workshop we 
> recently had in Beijing.  We noticed that OpenOffice and Symphony returned 
> different results for these counts for the same document.  It may come 
> down to whether text in headers/footers, captions, footnotes etc. are 
> counted in the totals or not.
> 
> I assume the main use of this is for those who have page number limits or 
> who are paid by the word.  

But why is this information saved in the file? 

Andreas