I adopted a short step-by-step information for including phrase rely performance to TextEdit.
Notice that the information instructs: "It’ll ask you to decide on a kind in your doc; click on Service". Nonetheless, in all probability resulting from model variations, as a substitute one should select Fast Motion.
Because the information advises, I used this code:
osascript inform software “TextEdit” set word_count to rely phrases of doc 1 set char_count to rely characters of doc 1 set show_words to (word_count as string) & ” phrases. (” & (char_count as string) & ” characters.)” set dialog_title to “TextEdit Phrase Rely” show dialog show_words with icon 1 with title dialog_title buttons {“Okay”} default button “Okay” finish inform AppleScriptHereDoc 
After creating the Motion / Service and operating it, I get the next error:
The motion “Run Shell Script” encountered an error: “-: -c: line 0: syntax error close to surprising token `(' -: -c: line 0: `osascript inform software “TextEdit” set word_count to rely phrases of doc 1 set char_count to rely characters of doc 1 set show_words to (word_count as string) & ” phrases. (” & (char_count as string) & ” characters.)” set dialog_title to “TextEdit Phrase Rely” show dialog show_words with icon 1 with title dialog_title buttons {“Okay”} default button “Okay” finish inform AppleScriptHereDoc'” 
The information is from Feb 23, 2018 (over 5 years in the past on the time of this writing), so which will have one thing to do with it. Hopefully there is a easy repair although.
