atw: Re: Limiting word count
- From: Write Ideas <writeideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:06:31 +1100
Hi Bill.
How about creating a password protected Word form in which they can only
type a maximum of 200 words (or the average equivalent in characters)
into a locked text field?
Send the authors the form and require them to submit using same, with no
other submission method being acceptable.
Apart from the inability of Word to spell check such fields, problem
solved.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
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Michael Granat
Write Ideas
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On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 08:54 +0800, Bill Parker wrote:
> Here's one for a Friday but it is Wednesday.
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> I want to be able (in Word) to limit the number of words people write
> in abstracts for conference proceedings.
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> The issue is that our authors for an annual conference do not read the
> instructions for authors and the end result comes my way for inclusion
> into a database every year. I have sometimes had to resort to a cut
> off at 200 - unfair but necessary. I'd like to be able to nip it in
> the bud at source. A bit like one of those on line blogs where you
> can watch the character count decrease as you write.
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> I realise that you might want to know which version of Word and I
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> Any ideas very welcome.
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> Dr Bill Parker
> “The greatest enemy of the truth is not the lie – deliberate,
> contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, pervasive, and
> unrealistic.”
> John F. Kennedy
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