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Review project and text statistics - Scrivener Tutorial
From the course: Scrivener Essential Training
Review project and text statistics
- [Instructor] How many words have I typed into this Scrivener project? To find out I'll click on project and then statistics. Here you can see an overview of the statistics for the entire project. At the top you can review the numbers of words, characters, paragraphs and sentences. You can also see other useful stats like average paragraph length and average sentence length. We can see how many documents I've created as well as how many pages this would be if it were to be compiled as a paperback book and we can see how long it might take to read. I can click on word frequency to find out how many times I use different words. As you might expect I tend to use the word the and a quite a bit, I often find it helpful to review a word frequency list to find out if I'm overusing a word, possibly to the point of distraction. In my corporate work I use this feature frequently to examine voice of the customer transcripts. This lets me get a better understanding of the vocabulary that…
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