as a sometimes freelancer, i've become accustomed to using the word count feature of ms word. since i'm always writing on word count, it's the last thing i do before saving the file and submitting it to my editor.
here's what i've noticed though. there's (at least) two ways to do a word count in ms word, and they consistently give you different results. using the word count feature in the tools menu on the profile i'm writing about the founders of a nice little company called revolution foods, i get a count of 418 words. on the other hand, according to the readability statistics feature (which i use to make sure i'm not using the passive voice excessively, 10% is the acceptable limit in my book) the count is 415 words.
in the whole scheme of things, this clearly doesn't mean shit, but as a former computer scientist this bothers me. why would you use two different routines to accomplish the same task? after all, even if you chose the one that calculated the result wrong, i wouldn't have noticed.
by the way, i have to get down to 400. i'm close, but finding words to excise has become real difficult. not surprising considering i started at 625 (or was it 628?).
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