Google Docs & Spreadsheets tells you how dumb you are

Posted Jul 19th 2007 12:30PM by Brad Linder
Filed under: Office, Web services, Google

It looks like Google's thrown a few new features into Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Once upon a time, clicking on the "Word count" button in the file menu resulted in pretty much what you'd expect: a word count.

Now there's a whole slew of new features, including character, paragraph, and sentence counts. But the really cool stats are under the "Readability" column. There, you can find out how many words per sentence, sentences per paragraph, and words per page you have. And that data lets Google use a few different formulas to tell you how easy or difficult your passage is to read.

For example, the blog entry you're reading right now is written at a 6th grade reading level. But if I throw in a few big words like transcendentalism, defenestration, mononucleosis, and antidisestablishmentarianism, it jumps up to a 7th grade level.

Tags: google docs, google docs and spreadsheets, GoogleDocs, GoogleDocsAndSpreadsheets, word count, WordCount

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-19-2007 @ 3:29PM

X said...

If I'm not mistaken Microsoft Word also has pretty much the same readability measures.

7-19-2007 @ 3:31PM

X said...

If I'm not mistaken Microsoft Word also has these readability measures.

7-19-2007 @ 9:13PM

Adam said...

They have had that feature for several releases now, though it is not on by default.

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