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Alright, that's what I thought. Thank you for your help. :D
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Congratulations! However, you can't validate for "winning" until the last week. There will be big banners all over the site about it when they activate it. Usually this happens Nov. 25.
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From what I understand, you can validate all you want just to make sure your word count is good, but only validations between the 25th and 30th will actually count you as a winner. Congratulations on...
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I'm not that much of a newbie, but I do have a question about validation. So, validation begins on the 25th. I have won already, so should I validate my word count anyway or will it not count unless I...
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Tools > AutoCorrect Options. In the Localised Options tab, click on the Start Quote and End Quote buttons and adjust it to the straight quotes (for me, U+2033) :3, or just uncheck the 'Replace'...
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Thanks for this - I have Pages on my Mac but have never really used it and was planning to write my novel in Word. But knowing that Pages' count is closer to NaNo's, I'll use that instead!
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Thanks everyone! Hope this helps other NaNoNewbies, too.
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Yes! The "curly quotes"! That's what I'm thinking of. A wrimo I know last year lost almost 2k words because of curly quotes. There is a way to turn it off to a more accurate word count. Thank you Elyndra.
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My experience with MS Word is that it's pretty accurate. When I put it trough the word counter here on the site, I usually end up with 500 words or so more than Word said I had, which is always a nice...
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There is a bit of a discrepicy between Word and the validator. It had to do with it somehow counted something as a word that wasn't. I'm sure it will show back up in the tech forums when it gets closer...
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Yep, the validation tool shows up right under the word counter on the Edit Your Novel page when the time comes and will start declaring winners around the 25th. It'll be a link that says something like...
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ok, cool. How closely does the validation tool match to say Microsoft Word's wordcount? Or other programs? Should noobs expect any surprises? Thanks everybody!
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You have that right! However, validation doesn't usually begin until the last week of Novemember. And it needs to be validated before midnight on Nov. 30.
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Ok, thanks! To make sure we all have this right: *we just enter a number on the My Novel page, each day. *when ready we validate Will the Validation tool be on the edit my novel page? I'm assuming it...
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To change your signature settings, go to edit my forum preferences directly under forum. And you don't upload the actual text of your novel until you validate, you just post the word count every day...
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This is my first year and I am totally excited! I am waiting anxiously for November to start actually writing. Until then, I am trying to anticipate problems I may have. For starters, where/how to...
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