Word Frequency on a small scale

Note: This method allows you to search for word frequency in one or just a few documents.

First- Select a single document, group of documents, or a collection and then go to statistics. Now, you can view the statistics for both the whole project and your Selected documents. (You can use a toolbar icon, menu command, or a keyboard shortcut to get there.)

Second, click on the Selected Document tab and you will get the word count for those selected documents.

Third, go to the bottom of the panel and click on word frequency. The information on word frequency ONLY applies to those documents you originally selected. This allows a very granular analysis in a small part of your project to monitor for possible overuse of some words while writing.

Note as shown below you can words to the ignore list so you can concentrate on words important to you. (Ignore words like for, a, and the.)

Tip: With large projects this can hang Scrivener up getting this information. If you are only concerend with your compiled output, then choose this option in the Options Tab AND make sure your research is marked as NOT compile. Doing this will take these files out of the statistics generated.