u/ronin-writes

I was banging my head against a wall about this and finally figured it out so I wanted to drop a post In case it helps anyone.

For some reason my hover-over word count suddenly stopped showing the total manuscript word count and was only showing the amounts for the currently selected document. I tried a bunch of settings but could not figure out how to make it show the entire manuscript.

Finally, I figured out that it is showing the word count for the current compile settings which I had briefly changed from manuscript to current selection. Lo' and behold, once I changed it back to manuscript the total word count updated.

Hope this helps somebody, it had been driving me crazy for the past few days.