Word Count for OneNote 14

OneNote is a great tool for folks who want to jot down random thoughts or ideas.  It’s a tool that appeals to the neat and organized, as well as to the awkward and clumsy note taker.  At OneNote, we affectionately refer to these two stereotypes as "filers" and "pilers".

OneNote is often used as the birthplace of a document’s origin, which will eventually become a published work of some kind.  No matter how free-flowing your thoughts are, OneNote has a way of adapting to your own personal style.

However, one feature that OneNote lacks inherently is a word counter.  If you ever find yourself wishing you knew how many words or characters you’ve created before you’re ready to move your notes to that next level, you have to count them yourself, or take the content into another program such as Microsoft Word and run it’s word counter.

Well, no more…because I’ve written a OneNote add-in that does just that.  It counts the number of words, characters (with and without spaces), outlines, paragraphs and ink words on a page.  If you find yourself wishing you had this feature in OneNote, try installing this add-in.  Once it’s installed, click on the Review tab where you’ll find the Word Count button.

Enjoy.

 

OneNote Wordcount.zip

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 17, 2010
  Great Add-In! Well updated and improved your 2007 one. However, as I have been trying to develop my own OneNote add-in to use the OneNote 2010 ribbon un-successfully, I was wondering whether you would be able to consider releasing some of the source code or possibly writing a short 'How-To' guide about adding your add-in onto the ribbon. With very limited infomartion availiable on the internet and MSDN, this would be a great help! Thanks

• Anonymous
  September 21, 2010
  Actually, there are lots of how-to guides already written for creating Office add-ins, most of which are much better than I would be able to put together.  You might try visiting this site and see if it is able to help you: msdn.microsoft.com/.../ff802688.aspx

• Anonymous
  September 21, 2010
  Hi, it doesn't seem to work for me. I get a message Statistics for page 0 of 0 and all the values are 0. I have tried selecting the page, selecting the text to no avail. Is there anything else I should be doing? Many thanks

• Anonymous
  September 22, 2010
  This will generally happen if you are on a page that doesn't really exist, such as a revision page or a conflict page.   A revision page appears when you click Share -> Page Versions.  If you're sharing a notebook and other people have contributed to the contents on the page, you'll see 1 or more revision pages appear beneath the existing page.   Similarly, a conflict page generally appears in a shared notebook, and occurs when 1 or more parties add  content to the same outline element, causing a conflict to occur.  A small icon will appear on the page tab indicating that a conflict has occurred.  If you click on the icon, it will expose the conflict in 1 or more pages beneath the existing page. Revision pages and conflict pages, while they appear in the section, don't really exist and are not accessible, other than for viewing purposes.   If you happen to be in either of these situations, this add-in will not count, since it only gathers data from a "real" page.  Try switching to a non reversion or conflict page and see if it works for you there.

• Anonymous
  September 23, 2010
  Nice work! Any chance of modifying it to show how many pages/sections there are? That's something I really want to know about my notebooks!

• Anonymous
  September 23, 2010
  it already shows the number of pages.  If you look at the top of the dialog, it says "page X of N", N being the total number of pages in the section.

• Anonymous
  September 25, 2010
  Thanks Jeff but that's not the problem. Page version is dimmed and there is no icon on the page. I clicked about in numerous pages and all are returning zero values in all the fields.

• Anonymous
  September 28, 2010
  I think this is an awesome addon, but one thing is missing: The option to ONLY count the text selected

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2010
  Having problems getting this working - addon installed, but no sign of it in the Review tab.  Have tried reinstalling a few times, and restarting to ensure a fresh version of OneNote is opened.  Any suggestions? Does it need installing in a particular folder?

• Anonymous
  October 08, 2010
  You do not need to install this tool into any particular folder for it to work. Make sure you installed the correct bit version for your bit version of Office.  For example, if you're using 32-bit Office, make sure you installed the 32-bit version of the tool.  Same for the 64-bit version. To help troubleshoot the problem, verify that the add-in was installed correctly by following these steps: Click File -> Options -> Add-Ins -> click the 'Go' button for Manage COM Add-Ins.  Make sure OneNote Word Counter is listed and has a checkmark next to it.  If it doesn't have a checkmark and you're unable to place a checkmark in it, it should give you a message that indicates the reason it was unable to load.  If it's not listed there at all, then it's probably a bit version mismatch and you'll need to uninstall and reinstall with the correct bit version.

• Anonymous
  October 10, 2010
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• Anonymous
  October 14, 2010
  Aah!  Good observation.  Yes, that is the problem.  This tool was designed to read 2010 sections and will not work with 2007 sections.  Sorry.

• Anonymous
  January 30, 2011
  (in response to my previous comment) FYI, it light of the scarcity of developer documentation about OneNote Extensibility, I wrote a guide on how to extend OneNote 2010's ribbon (after finding some source code to learn from, late last year). For those interested: www.malteahrens.com/blog/howto-onenote-dev/

• Anonymous
  February 19, 2011
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• Anonymous
  February 26, 2011
  Doesn't work for me either I'm afraid. I'm using One Note 2010 32Bit v14.0.5128.0000 The error I'm getting is: Location: mscoree.dll Load behavior: Not Loaded. A runtime error occurred during the loading of the COM Add-in.

• Anonymous
  May 03, 2011
  Same error with me. Can you please help me. Is this add-in suppposed to be working for one note 2010? regards

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2011
  Thanks a bunch works great, I love it

• Anonymous
  June 10, 2011
  tnx so much was so frustrated not having word count

• Anonymous
  August 29, 2011
  Works great. I agree with one poster above-- a great enhancement would be to only have it count text on the page that you've highlighted. But considering the price, I'll take it as is and thank you for it.

• Anonymous
  October 16, 2011
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• Anonymous
  October 19, 2011
  Jeff, Does this work on a section you highlight?  For example, for school I am tasked with writing a paper of 700 words, but during my writing process I like to add in notes or whatever in the margins.  If I only want to count the words that will actually end up in my paper, without the extras, will this plug in do that?

• Anonymous
  November 02, 2011
  Occasionally, the add-on freezes after it finishes calculation. Its window (along with OneNote) becomes unresponsive for 30 seconds and cannot be closed.

• Anonymous
  November 22, 2011
  Thanks, onenote really annoyed me without word count. Now I have it - works great.

• Anonymous
  December 14, 2011
  I can't get it to appear as an add-in in OneNote 2010. I have installed, unistalled & reinstalled ensuring I use the correct 64bit installer, but I get nothing showing up in the Add-ins window at all. Any ideas?

• Anonymous
  March 04, 2012
  I can not get it to appear, either. I try to add it but it said that it is not a valid add-on...

• Anonymous
  March 14, 2012
  I wasted an hour and then I finally googled onenote word counter. Thank you so much! (PS. Those of you having trouble getting it to work, I installed the x86 version , instead of the x64. Works like a charm!)

• Anonymous
  March 17, 2012
  Would be a fantastic add-in, if it has the function to count words for selected text.

• Anonymous
  April 11, 2012
  Excellent news for anyone who's been using the 2007 add-in in OneNote 2010; it's great to have it in Review rather than an add-ins tab and even better that it now works when the ribbon is minimised, so I can have it on the QAT ;-) thank you so much!

• Anonymous
  July 09, 2012
  A thought: now that Windows 8 is coming along, this wonderful add-in gets flagged by SmartScreen because it's not signed - might you consider signing the installer so that no-one worries about installing it? Or get enough people to install it under Windows 8 that it gets a good app reputation! The download doesn't trigger IE's SmartScreen app rep, just installing under Windows RP (32-bit).

• Anonymous
  July 11, 2012
  Thank you for your upload. However when I install mine it does not  seem to work. It just does not come up in the review area. Is there a step I've missed or is there some sort of error? I would really appreciate your help. Thank you in advanced.

• Anonymous
  August 06, 2012
  Cheers for this Is there no way to get a character count for just a highlighted section of text though? That can be really useful at times.

• Anonymous
  August 13, 2012
  Too bad it doesn't work with OneNote 2013 preview. What's worse, now that I installed both, the add-in for 2010 seems to break due to a different xml format in the new version.

• Anonymous
  September 27, 2013
  Wonderful! Works like a charm! Thanks a bunch.

• Anonymous
  October 21, 2013
  Wordcount for selected text would be ideal! This is a nice add-in to be sure but not much use to me because it counts all the words on the page. What's confusing is that it looks extremely similar to Word's wordcount which actually does count the number of words in the text that's highlighted. A good effort by Jeff Cardon though.

• Anonymous
  January 20, 2014
  OneNote 2010, 32 bit.  This add-in works beautifully!  Thank you.

• Anonymous
  January 29, 2014
  I have a 64-bit system and I tried installing 64-bit version of this, didn't work. So i installed the 32-bit and it worked. Go figure.

• Anonymous
  March 06, 2014
  I wonder if it could also be made to include a word count of a highlighted section rather than the whole page? Very clever to make this tool. Thanks heaps.

• Anonymous
  April 09, 2014
  Most people would have the 32 bit version of office on their 64 bit Win 7 installs, so would need the 32 bit version for it to work. FYI, worked perfectly in OneNote2013

• Anonymous
  April 24, 2014
  Probably doesn't work for the new Mac version does it?

• Anonymous
  May 06, 2014
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• Anonymous
  June 07, 2014
  I've just discovered this. Awesome! Thanks! ^^

• Anonymous
  September 13, 2014
  Do you have an Ad-on that will work for OS X?

• Anonymous
  September 14, 2014
  Thanks for the tool. Works great for me.

• Anonymous
  October 25, 2014
  Could you help me with word count for OneNote 365... this add in does not seem to work... thx

• Anonymous
  October 25, 2014
  OK... installed the 32 Bit version and worked like a charm... so I have the solution. Thx

• Anonymous
  February 22, 2015
  Anyone know how to do this on onenote for Mac

• Anonymous
  April 08, 2015
  To keep track of the word and character count, I use this http://wordcounttools.com tool and it works like a charm. Another alternative is the http://charactercounttool.net website.

• Anonymous
  October 29, 2015
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• Anonymous
  January 03, 2016
  Thank you so much for developing this!

• Anonymous
  January 04, 2016
  I just downloaded this, and will not work. I have no idea, my laptop is HP it says when I go to download the x64 one, I either repair or remove. I've clicked repair like twice, and still no clue?

• Anonymous
  March 11, 2016
  Phantastic! Thank you so much for this upload. I still can't believe that the official office support solution is to copy-paste your text into ms word for the word count. that's worth a laugh. support.office.com/.../Get-the-word-count-of-a-page-e718fca9-3987-4afb-a04e-f5978ba07b69