A question about word numbers in WS4 and office word

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sunarise

Recently, I've encountered a problem about counting word numbers. If I didn't misunderstand, "tokens (running words) in the text" of WS4 is the total word numbers, then why the word numbers in the office word is different from that of WS4???? For example, my total word numbers in WS4 are around 24,000 while in word office are more than 35,000??? Thank you for your answer!:)
 
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I think that's because punctuation is not counted as words in WordSmith Tool 4.
 
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:) thankyou, but I have deleted all punctution in my text. This is why it's so bizarre!!
 
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In addition, the word numbers I mentioned here is "chinese characters". So, is language a problem???
 
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If you are dealing with Chinese, In Word, "word" number actually means the number of characters whereas WST4 only works reliably with tokenised text - the difference in counting is a sure thing.

If you are dealing with English text, then abbreviated forms such as "I'll" and "can't" are also treated differently in Word and WST4. YOu can of course edit the options to let WST know what characters are allowed in "words".
 
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