Select statistics from the File menu to show statistical information about the current crossword. You can also select Words and word statistics from the Words menu to show the Words page of statistics directly. The statistics window can be left open while you edit the puzzle, and will automatically update to reflect changes.
There are five pages of information:
General
This shows various self-explanatory statistics about the various types of squares used, clues written, etc.
The Clue Character count shows the number of letters used both with and without including the clue numbers, formats and headings.
The program calculates whether the grid is pangrammatic (containing all letters of the alphabet) using the alphabet selected under Clue Properties . It is not classed as pangrammatic if any of the letters are missing or the grid contains letters not in the alphabet. See the Letters tab see individual letter counts.
Words
The left list box shows an alphabetical list of all the words in the puzzle. Click on any word to select it in the grid. The right-hand panel shows a graph of the word length or clue tag frequencies. Click on any line in the graph to select the corresponding words in the grid. Clue tags can be changed in the Clue Editor.
Click the Select words not in spelling list button to highlight words which aren't in the word list you've set up for spell-checking. The word list is set in the List Usage box. If some words are incomplete (i.e. show up with "?" in place of some letters) the program will highlight the words which have no matches in the spelling list.
Similar words
The list box shows any words in the grid which contain common groups of letters. The common group of letters is colored in red, and words with the most common sequential letters are listed first. This is useful for checking that you are not using words which a too similar, even though they're not exactly identical. Click on any line to select in the grid the words listed on that line.
The Professional Grid Filler has an option Avoid repeating substrings in different words that can be set to avoid using similar words when you fill a grid.
Accidental words
See the Accidental Words topic for details.
Letters
This page shows the number of times each letter is used in the grid, and any letters in the alphabet (set under Clue Properties) that are unused. You can click on any of the letter counts to select them in the grid.