Warning for NaNo-ers using Google Docs

November 1st, 2006 - 22:05 | 3 comments

Google Docs (nee Writely) says I’ve written 1709 words. The NaNo site says 1664. OpenOffice.org says 1670. I ran into this last year when I uploaded my (just) 50,000 word novel to be verified by the NaNo site and found it was 800 words short. Just something to bear in mind. This may well already be on the official forums, but they’re down atm.

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3 Responses to “Warning for NaNo-ers using Google Docs”

1 Jo Nov 2nd, 2006 at 9:06 pm

I just tested it comparing my word count in Word with theirs and they are exactly the same. Phew!
2 Andrew Nov 3rd, 2006 at 11:58 am

Huh. Odd. Maybe it gets confused by ellipses or something. I’d try to figure it out, although like you I’m running out of time this month so far
3 Jo Nov 4th, 2006 at 9:20 am

I’ve decided I don’t like the official profile page on the NaNo website as you can’t tell it when you wrote the words, only when your latest word count was uploaded. But the spreadsheet you sent me is brilliant, cheers for that. I particularly enjoyed it when it told me that at my current rate, I’d be finished by 26 November 2005…

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