[tbdcmike]

I'm currently working on a book using microsoft office for the first time, and I'm wondering if there's a way to have the window displayed in a way similar to that of a book, so that I know approximately how many pages I'm working with so far.

Thank you in advance for the help.

-Mike

 

[TimH]

Since books vary in page size and font size, that is tricky. The only way I know of is to reduce your page size, increase your font size, or reduce your margin size, all of which would make printing sort of a pain.

What I do is just count the number of words on a page in a book and use that number as an average page. Write it down so you don't forget, then using MS Word's word-counter (Tools>Word Count) you'll take the total # of words you're written and devide it by the number you wrote down.

So say you counted 100 words from a book page, and you're written 1800 words... you wrote 18 pages. That will be an approximation, so nothing exact. Upside is that you won't have to any funky formatting.

 

[tbdcmike]

Thank you for the hasty reply, it's much appreciated.

I actually thought of that shortly after making this post and some google search results yielded an average of how many words are in a novel that is of the genre I'm working on.

This means that using the word count feature should help a bit to decide when I should stop writing.

Thanks again!

-Mike

 

[gistek]

Most publishers go by word count rather than page count anyway.