I’m testing Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 on my PC. (Full disclosure: Microsoft is a client.) There are a gazillion new features. Yada yada. But I’ve just noticed the coolest new thing for writers: a live, constantly updated word count on the status bar at the bottom of the Word window. Brilliant. Doesn’t sound like much but anyone who writes for a living will know that this is a big improvement.
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While it might be a nice feature, there are 70000 of the brightest minds in the world working for Microsoft. I’ve been working on both Vista and Office 2007 for the last few months and the new version of Office is nice, but there’s a LOT of new stuff that could have been added. It’s not as if there’s a lack of suggestions throughout the Net …
… not to mention that this feature has been in Office X for Mac forever!
Works well from within word, but when typing a new mail message the work count feature can’t be found anywhere… I use this a lot when sending SMS from e-mail to ensure it’s within the 160 chars and now have to manually count. Most frustraing!