Word to character conversion tool
Thread poster: Sanja Gjurova
Sanja Gjurova
Sanja Gjurova
Australia
Local time: 23:49
English to Macedonian
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Sep 9, 2011

Has anyone used or uses a word to character conversion tool? I hope you have, since I'm looking for a free downloadable one. Could you recommend any?

Thanks in advance.


 
Jean Lachaud
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United States
Local time: 09:49
English to French
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Word to character???? Sep 9, 2011

Please explain what you mean.

 
Teymur Suleymanov
Teymur Suleymanov  Identity Verified
Local time: 09:49
Russian to English
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Not enough information, can you pls. explain? Sep 9, 2011

Sanja Mladenovska wrote:

Has anyone used or uses a word to character conversion tool? I hope you have, since I'm looking for a free downloadable one. Could you recommend any?

Thanks in advance.


Did you mean characters that look like but actually means "smile"? Or something like U2 which would mean 'you too'? Or YRU standing for 'why are you...' something?

I agree, we need a little more info on this...

Teymur


 
Kevin Fulton
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United States
Local time: 09:49
German to English
Use Word Sep 9, 2011

If you're using MS Word 2007 (perhaps this is true in 2010):
Click the Review tab; in the "Proofing" group there's an icon that shows "123" and below it, "abc" Clicking on it will give you all sorts of information: pages, words, characters with spaces, characters without spaces, etc.

If you're using Word 2003, Click the "File" tab, go to "View document properties", then click the "Statistics" tab. You'll get the word/character count there.

Of course, the specific
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If you're using MS Word 2007 (perhaps this is true in 2010):
Click the Review tab; in the "Proofing" group there's an icon that shows "123" and below it, "abc" Clicking on it will give you all sorts of information: pages, words, characters with spaces, characters without spaces, etc.

If you're using Word 2003, Click the "File" tab, go to "View document properties", then click the "Statistics" tab. You'll get the word/character count there.

Of course, the specific commands will be different, depending on your localized version of Word, but this should point you in the right direction.

If I'm not mistaken, Practicount also provides a character count.
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Merja Jauhiainen
Merja Jauhiainen  Identity Verified
Finland
Local time: 16:49
Member (2008)
English to Finnish
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For calculating rates? Sep 9, 2011

Hi,

Did you perhaps mean a tool you can use to convert your fees from one calculation method to another?

Here's one I've used:
http://www.amtrad.it/feewizardol.php

Hope this helps - if that's what you were looking for

Merja


 
Sanja Gjurova
Sanja Gjurova
Australia
Local time: 23:49
English to Macedonian
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TOPIC STARTER
This is what i was looking for Sep 9, 2011

I apologize to everyone for the lack of explanation. Thank you Merja! This is actually what i was looking for.


Merja Jauhiainen wrote:

Hi,

Did you perhaps mean a tool you can use to convert your fees from one calculation method to another?

Here's one I've used:
http://www.amtrad.it/feewizardol.php

Hope this helps - if that's what you were looking for

Merja


 


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