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Does anybody have an opinion about the accuracy of various methods of counting words? I've never had any need to count words in a document, and so I'm not sure what to make of the different answers I get between say a plain text editor and Word.
Plain Text Editor:
296,810
Plain Text in Word:
300,820
PDF Converted to Word:
316,719
Is there any consensus about which is likely to be the most accurate? Is there a better method?
Brian H.
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