Count words per page

[rvanlaak]

My scenario is a user that selects a single page from a docx it has uploaded. I'd like to know the amount of words on the selected page, and the total amount of words of the entire document. It would be great if this could be almost identical to the number of words MS Word shows.

I've been reading the docs carefully, in order to estimate whether or not it will be possible to count the total amount of words, and the words per page. Is PHPWord able to read all sorts of docx files, or what does happen when the reader gets across a unrecognized element? (Like the new PivotChart visualizations in Office 2013)

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[ghost]

Hello,

At the moment, I don't think it is possible to get the number of words in a selected page. When you parse docx with PHPWord, it didn't recognize word but characters with the same style and try to merge them in one thing. If you get modifications on the same word, phpword will think that they are different thing.

Maybe in the future.

[rvanlaak]

Will phpword be able to recognize the new PivotChart visualizations?

[ghost]

I don't know.

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