To view the number of words in a document fragment, select the desired text. The status bar displays the word count of the selected text and the entire document. Tip: To see the number of characters, paragraphs, and lines, click Statistics in the status bar.
How do I count the number of characters in Word?
In Word, you can get information about the number of words, characters with and without spaces, paragraphs, and lines in your document. To get this information, left-click on the word counter in the status bar or go to the Review tab in the menu and select Statistics.
How do I count the number of characters?
How do I count characters? To find out how many characters a text contains, you can open the document in Word or LibreOffice. Alternatively, you can use an online tool like a character counter to count the number of characters in a document.
How to count the number of words in a text?
✅ You should count ALL the words you read, including prepositions and conjunctions, as well as hyphenated words, which count as two words. If there is a word in the text that is moved to another line, these two parts of the word are counted as two read words. Punctuation marks do not count.