Open Office Writer 3.0 - Any way to add automatic word count to a toolbar?

[fatboy]

Hi,

I am using OO Writer 3.0 on Ubuntu.

I would like to add an automatic word count to a toolbar, so that when I highlight a body of text it will tell me how many words there are, without having to goto Tools -> Word Count.

Is there any way to do this?

Many thanks.

[Steve R Jones]

I've never seen the app...But in MS Word you can "customize" the tool bar and add the word count button.

[Midknyte]

How can I show the character count WHILE typing?

[fatboy]

Thanks for the replies chaps.

I currently have the button so that will have to do for the time being - the macro wasn't suitable.

:-)