To Winners: NaNo's wordcount match your word processor's?

It's about six hundred words ahead for me - I'm using Microsoft Word 2007

At first, the formatting on my Word document was crazy-messed up, and it took about 2000 words off of it when I uploaded. (Scary, right?) But I fixed it and now it's about 150 words shorter when it's uploaded - not bad.

I miss it from last year, when it added 800 to mine!

I've gained 14 extra words.
Have you guys been using a lot of breaks between paragraphs?

I used Google documents to do mine on, and my final word count I ended up loosing 18 words from what documents told me to what NaNo gave me. So not too detrimental to my word count.

the validator here gave me two more words than Microsoft Word did LOL

So it was pretty close. Good luck!

For RoughDraft this year, the validator's been taking away words from my count, so I switched to Q10, which gave me a more accurate (though not exact) count.

I gained about 100 words. My wordcount at home is about 50080. but I still went by the smaller wordcount JUST IN CASE, until the point where both of them were over 50,000 words.

I was using Text Editor on my Mac (nope, haven't upgraded yet!), and Word 2007 at work, and this online word counter thing (when at home with Text Editor which appears to have no word counting function), and finally the NaNobot word counter!

I just did a verify to see how close my two counts were...
It took off over 1.5k words!

Me too February... it added 2 words to mine.

Haha, i didn't realize i could upload it and get a wordcount, and it took exactly one word off my microsoft word 2003 wordcount.

So what I'm really saying is GIVE ME MY WORD BACK, CHRIS BATY!

If this happens, just end the thing with "The end." ;)

Not quite done, yet, almost there... but Nanowrimo has me at 16 words fewer than my word processor. Probably because Microsoft counts almost every character, or group of characters, separated by spaces as a word.

- Rob (of War) Payne

I've been around 100 words less via NaNo every time I upload. /shrug. Oh well.

Any chance the word counter will add 12K to mine? (Wink)

It gives me a whole 1 word every time, both this year and last year.

I have Word 2002. Best thing anyone can do is go ahead and put your document in the validator, it will update your word count automatically and you can see what the difference is for you, because there are some Word users saying they get a difference, though the majority say just 1 word higher. It depends on the word processor along with the writing style.

And by the way, no that doesn't mean my document has 49,999 considering my word count. My wordcount is actually over 70k now, but I'm mostly using another account to post and pretending I still haven't won so I can get that push I need for 100k. I won't be validating on that account since it's the same novel.

I lost seven words. In MS Word 2004 I had a word count of 50,014 words. So I had only just got across the line. But then the validator came back with 50,007

At the end of the day I don't care. I still reached the 50k, and I only started on Nov 7, so I did it all in 19 days. Am quite proud really.

I lost about 175 words from Ywriter to NaNo. No biggie. I mean, it's not like I'm going to stop now. I'm hoping to hit 60K by the true end of Nano. But where do I post my wordcounts next month!? :)

Well, I haven't won yet, but on my test run, the NaNo site gave me about 800 extra words.

Wow.

Really? wow

I had three extra words. *shrugs* although that probably included the title, my name and the dat which word didn't count.

:D

Really? wow

I had three extra words. *shrugs* although that probably included the title, my name and the dat which word didn't count.

:D

When I first tested the validator it took away one word from what my word processor told me, but when I went to verify my winning length, it added a word. Overall, very close.

NaNoWriMo/YWP's word validators were both 13 words more that Microsoft Word 2005's word counter.

Word 2003 told me I had 50,719 words, but it was validated to 50,748 - a bonus of 28 words. All three years I've done NaNo, the validator has upped my word count.

/Anne

Microsoft Word Processor word count had one word less than the NaNoWriMo word count, so pretty close :D

I gained an extra 74 words with the NaNo counter compared to Word 2000, so yay!

Nano's word count gives me an extra 200 words. Yes, you heard right. Maybe it's because in portugueses (the language I'm writing on) I use a lot of words separated only by an "-". I'm guessing word counts those as only one word, and nano's counts it as two words.
Well, it's all good for me, so yay!

It gave me seventeen extra words.

I'm using Open Office 2.4 and the word counter has consistently been giving me extra words. The daily count varies from a low of 68 to a high of 197. What's weird is my Open Office program *lowers* my *word count* if I close it.

Right now Open Office says I have 50,138 words and NaNoWriMo says I have 50,335.

That's actually a known bug with Open Office: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=89042

Maybe Open Office is changing the quotes when you close it?

I got about 15 extra words when I validated.

I use Open Office, but make sure all the auto-formatting for curly quotes and ellipses and the rest is turned off. I also always create a .txt version as part of my backup routine and for the validator I opened that in notepad and did the copy paste from that to avoid any wacky characters I'd let slip through.

Heh, I know one word that I gained in the validated version that Open Office didn't count as a word. It was a smiley! :) That one specifically, from a text message a character sent. OO didn't count :) as a word. Though it does count :D I promise, that's the only smiley in the novel! :D

I'm at about 350-400 words lost with the NaNo validator. My first year, I wrote "the end", then validated and was a couple hundred words short. So I added in a few extraneous descriptive passages and considered myself good. =)

I use MS Word 2003. I wonder what it counts as extra words?