As one would expect, Microsoft Word includes a feature to count the words in a document; it also includes the ability to count the characters. Knowing the character count of a document is important ...

For some, writing comes easy. It may feel like mere seconds for words to start flying off the page as the final word count nears thousands. For others, it may take several painstaking hours to muster ...

As regular Business Hacks readers know, I'm a big fan of using keyboard shortcuts--especially in Microsoft Word. But there are some program functions, like Word Count, that don't have shortcuts ...

If you’re working on a piece in Google Docs, you may need a word count to check just how long it is (or needs to be). Google Docs doesn’t make this obvious — there’s no native word counter or quick ...

You can get a character count in a Word document by selecting the "Review" tab and clicking "Word Count." You can find both the number of characters with spaces and the character count not including ...

One of the most common questions that we get in the Word Power section is how many words there are in the English language. Almost as common are requests for the average size of a person?s vocabulary.

TextEdit, the simple text editor program built into macOS (and Mac OS X before it), has many attractive qualities – so much so that this very article is currently being typed into it despite the ...