Count the number of characters, lines, and paragraphs You can view the number of characters, lines, paragraphs, and other information in your Word for Mac, by clicking the word count in the status bar to open the Word Count box. Unless you have selected some text, Word counts all text in the document, as well as the characters, and displays them in the Word Count box as the Statistics. Count the number of words in a part of a document To count the number of words in only part of your document, select the text you want to count.
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To enable the Word Count feature in Pages, tap the spanner icon in the toolbar, tap Settings, then toggle Word Count. You’ll now see the Word Counter appear at the bottom of your document. You’ll now see the Word Counter appear at the bottom of your document. While this covers word count, there does not appear to be an individual character counter in Pages, so you’ll have to make due with the word counter instead. Or if you have access to a Mac, you can always use a character and word counter service in Mac OS that you can make yourself.
Then on the Tools menu, click Word Count. Insert the word count into your document You can also insert the word count into your Word document and if you choose, update the information as often as you want. Click in your document where you want the word count to appear. Click Insert Field. Under Categories, click Document Information, and then under Field names, click NumWords. Click OK to add the word count field to your document. Display the status bar and view number of characters To display the status bar in Word for Mac 2011, on the Word menu, click Preferences, click View, and then under Window, select the check box next to Status bar.
To see the number of characters, lines, paragraphs, and other information, click the word count in the status bar to open the Word Count box. Unless you have selected some text, Word counts all text in the document, as well as the characters, and displays them in the Word Count box as Statistics. Count the number of words in a part of a document To count the number of words in only part of your document, select the text you want to count. Then on the Tools menu, click Word Count. Insert the word count into your document You can also insert the word count into your Word document and if you choose, update the information as often as you want. Click in your document where you want the word count to appear. Click Insert Field.
Under Categories, click Document Information, and then under Field names, click NumWords. Click OK to add the word count field to your document.
An elegant dock icon that conveniently and unobtrusively performs word counts on text you copy! Displayed as an icon on your dock menu, the app will count your selection's number of characters, words, lines, and UTF8 characters whenever and wherever you are copying or pressing Command + C.