If you work in the MS Word program, performing this or that task in accordance with the requirements put forward by a teacher, boss or customer, one of the conditions is probably strict (or approximate) adherence to the number of characters in the text. You may need to know this information solely for your own personal use. In any case, the question is not why this is needed, but how it can be done.
In this article we will talk about how to look at the number of words and characters in a text in Word, and before starting to consider the topic, familiarize yourself with what exactly the program from the Microsoft Office package counts in a document:
Pages;
Paragraphs;
Strings;
Signs(with and without spaces).
When you enter text in a MS Word document, the program automatically counts the number of pages and words in the document. This data appears in the status bar (at the bottom of the document).
- Advice: If the page/word counter is not displayed, right-click on the status bar and select “Number of words” or “Statistics” (in Word versions earlier than 2016).
If you want to see the number of characters, click on the “Number of words” button located in the status bar. The Statistics dialog box will show not only the number of words, but also the number of characters in the text, both with and without spaces.
Counting the number of words and characters in the selected text fragment
The need to count the number of words and characters sometimes arises not for the entire text, but for a separate part (fragment) of it or several such parts. By the way, it is by no means necessary that the fragments of text in which you need to count the number of words should be in order.
1. Select a piece of text in which you want to count the number of words.
2. The status bar will show the number of words in the selected text fragment in the form “Word 7 of 82”, Where 7 is the number of words in the selected fragment, and 82 - throughout the text.
- Advice: To find out the number of characters in a selected piece of text, click on the button in the status bar indicating the number of words in the text.
If you want to highlight multiple passages in text, follow these steps.
1. Select the first fragment, the number of words/characters in which you want to find out.
2. Hold down the key "Ctrl" and select the second and all subsequent fragments.
3. The number of words in the selected fragments will be shown in the status bar. To find out the number of characters, click on the pointer button.
We count the number of words and characters in the inscriptions
1. Select the text contained in the caption.
2. The status bar will show the number of words inside the selected text and the number of words in the entire text, similar to how it happens with text fragments (described above).
- Advice: To select several texts after selecting the first one, hold down the key "Ctrl" and select the following ones. Release the key.
To find out the number of characters in the selected inscription or inscriptions, click on the statistics button in the status bar.
Count words/characters in text along with footnotes
We have already written about what footnotes are, why they are needed, how to add them to a document and remove them, if necessary. If your document contains footnotes and the number of words/characters in them also needs to be taken into account, follow these steps:
1. Select the text or text fragment with footnotes in which you want to count the words/characters.
2. Go to the tab “Review”, and in the group "Spelling" click on the button "Statistics".
3. In the window that will appear in front of you, check the box next to the item “Take into account captions and footnotes”.
Adding word count information to a document
Perhaps, in addition to the usual counting of the number of words and characters in the document, you need to add this information to the MS Word file you are working with. This is quite easy to do.
1. Click on the place in the document where you want to place information about the number of words in the text.
2. Go to the tab "Insert" and click on the button “Express blocks” located in the group "Text".
3. In the menu that appears, select "Field".
4. In the section “Field names” select item "NumWords", then press the button "OK".
By the way, you can add the number of pages in exactly the same way, if necessary.
Note: In our case, the number of words indicated directly in the document field is different from what is indicated in the status bar. The reason for this discrepancy lies in the fact that the text of the footnote in the text is located below the indicated place, which means it is not taken into account, and the word in the inscription is also not taken into account.
We'll finish here, because now you know how to count the number of words, characters and signs in Word. We wish you success in further study of such a useful and functional text editor.
He naturally means electronic variant informational text. Regularly working with texts, you need to know how to count the number of characters in Word. Despite the fact that free access to the Internet allows anyone to download various software applications, including products that specialize solely in counting the number of characters typed, they have no practical use. Being in the Word text editor, you can find out everything about the question of interest in just a few seconds.
Today, the simplest, most accessible and very popular method that allows you to see the number of characters is the multifunctional toolkit of the well-known software product from Microsoft.
Find out the number of characters in the entire document
To find out the number of characters in Word, the user will need, at a minimum, the installed Microsoft Word software application (the program version does not make a significant difference) and the text itself - the information that was printed or copied from the World Wide Web into a blank word processor document.
If all the above conditions are met, the need to count the number of characters in Word remains a simple formality.
No mandatory condition, which determines the place where the cursor should be when the user needs to use the “Statistics” command. It is this element of the multifunctional toolkit that helps to count the symbols and words used.
Location of the Statistics parameter
Version 2007
Located directly in Word document There is no need to highlight an information block when the user is faced with the task of counting the number of characters in the entire text.
In Word, you should pay attention to the bottom line, which has more famous name, like the status bar. Among the options located on the left side, the second button will be “Number of words”. By clicking on this command on the screen, a specialized information window will immediately appear, which will display not only the number of characters used in the article without taking into account spaces, but also with them.
Such a tool is especially important for people who, for example, write articles to order. For example, if a person is asked to write a short message, the text of which must be at least 1500 characters, without additionally specifying whether spaces should be counted or not, by default, in most cases, all spaces should be included in the number.
There are cases when, after pre-installing the Word editor, the corresponding function is disabled in it; to activate it, you can directly click on any space clear of commands in the status bar, after which a dialog box will appear on the screen that helps you configure this tool. The user must simply check the box next to the “Number of words” command.
Version 2010
Version 2003
Among other commands located in the central menu of the software application, there is the “Service” category. With this parameter you can find out the number of characters used in open document. You just need to go to the “Statistics” subsection. It is worth noting that the parameter used helps determine the knowledge of not only the number of characters, but also pages, words and characters. The user will see the number on the screen without tedious counting
When working in the MS Word text editor, the user needs to find out the number of characters in Word. A Word document contains a certain number of characters (symbols).
Many users at work and at home use the Word text editor on their computers, which is included in Microsoft applications Office. After creating a document in a word processor, I needed to find out the number of characters in Word. To do this, you can use third-party services, but this is not always convenient, especially since it is possible to automatically count the number of characters in the text in the editor itself Microsoft Word.
There may be different reasons for finding out how many characters (characters) are in the text:
- Some services have a limited number of characters to enter into feedback forms;
- there are restrictions on text size, measured in the number of characters;
- The remuneration for the written text depends on the number of characters.
In the first case, in feedback forms government agencies or other organizations, there is often a restriction on a certain number of characters that can be entered when accessing the service. If the limit is exceeded, the extra text is not displayed in the form field. Therefore, it makes sense to prepare in advance required text of a suitable size that fits within the restrictions in the Word editor, and then insert the finished text into the application form.
In other situations, there are restrictions on minimum size, for example, you need a text of no more than 500 characters, or, conversely, there are restrictions on maximum size text up to a certain number of characters.
When writing texts to order, for example, for sites on the Internet (on most sites, published articles are written to order by other people, and not by the owner of the resource), in technical specifications certain requirements are put forward regarding the number of characters in a future article. The amount of payment to the author of the text depends on this parameter.
Therefore, users often have a question about how to count the number of characters in Word. In Microsoft Word, the user can see the total number of characters in the entire Word document, or the number of characters in a single selected piece of text.
Please note some points:
- Select the desired piece of text to count the number of characters. To select individual blocks of text located in different places in the document, press the Ctrl key on the keyboard, and then select non-adjacent pieces of text in the Word document.
- To find out the total number of characters in Word (in the entire document), you do not need to select anything. By default, the program will automatically calculate the entire text of the document.
How to find out the number of characters in Word 2016
- Open Microsoft Word 2016, enter the desired text.
- In the lower left corner of the program window, the status bar displays information about the number of words in this document (this setting is enabled by default). Click on the “Number of words” value with the left mouse button.
- The “Statistics” window will open, which will display complete information about the contents of the Word document:
- number of pages;
- number of words;
- number of characters (without spaces);
- number of characters (with spaces);
- number of paragraphs;
- number of lines.
The Consider captions and footnotes option takes into account all text in the document. Without activating this setting, only the main text of the document will be taken into account.
The number of characters without spaces corresponds to the total number of characters in the document text.
2 way to find out the number of characters in a Word 2016 document: in the Word 2016 program window, open the “Review” tab, select the “Statistics” option.
How to determine the number of characters of selected text in Word 2016
In Word 2016, use two methods to count the number of characters in a selection.
- Select a piece of text in a Word 2016 document.
- The Number of Words value will display two numbers separated by a slash. The first number shows the number of selected words, the second number corresponds to the total number of words in the document text.
- Left-click on the “Number of Words” value; in the “Statistics” window you will see all the statistical characteristics of the selected fragment.
Method 2: after selecting the desired fragment in Word text 2016, open the “Review” tab, select “Statistics”.
How to count the number of characters in Word 2013
In the Microsoft Word 2013 text editor, after typing or pasting text from another source, follow these steps (1 method):
- In the lower left corner of the application window, left-click on the “Number of Words” value located in the status bar.
- In the “Statistics” window that opens, you will see the calculation result. The statistics parameter number “Characters (without spaces)” has the same meaning as the number of characters in the Word text.
2nd way to find out the number of characters in Word 2013: select the text, go to the “Review” tab, click on the “Statistics” option.
How to count the number of characters in a selected fragment of a Word 2013 document
1 way to view the statistics of a selected piece of text in Word 2013:
- Left-click on the Word Count value on the status bar.
- In the “Statistics” window, data on the number of characters in the selected fragment of the Microsoft Word document will open.
Method 2 to obtain information about the number of characters in a selected fragment: select a fragment of the document, go to the “Review” tab, click on the “Statistics” item.
How to count the number of characters in Word 2010
In Word 2010 text editor, do the following (method 1):
- In an open Word 2010 document, in the status bar, left-click on the “Number of Words” value.
- In the “Statistics” window, the number of characters without spaces corresponds to the number of characters in the document text.
2nd way to view statistics in Microsoft Word 2010: in the program window, go to the “Review” tab, and then click on the “Statistics” icon.
How to find out the number of characters in selected text in Word 2010
To find out the number of characters in a selected fragment of a Word 2010 document, do the following:
- Select the desired piece of text.
- Click on the “Number of words” value (the number of words in the selected text and the total number of words in the text will be displayed here).
- The “Statistics” window will open all statistical data about the selected text.
How to find out the number of characters in Word 2007
1 way to determine the number of characters in Word 2007:
- In an open Word 2007 document, move the mouse cursor to the status bar, and then left-click on the “Number of Words” value.
- In the open “Statistics” window, complete statistical information about this text will appear.
The number of characters without spaces corresponds to the number of characters in a Word 2007 document.
Method 2: in a Word 2007 document, open the “Review” tab, and then click on the “Statistics” icon (in the upper left corner of the program window).
How to see the number of characters in a selection in Word 2007
In Microsoft Word 2007, open a document, and then do the following (method 1):
- Select a piece of text.
- Left-click in the status area on the “Number of words” value (the first digit takes into account the number of words in the selected fragment).
- The “Statistics” window will display all the data for the selected text fragment.
- Select the desired fragment in the document.
- Open the Review tab and select the Statistics option.
How to count the number of characters in text in Word 2003
In Microsoft Word 2003, to obtain information about the number of characters in the text of a document, do the following:
- Enter the “Tools” menu, select “Statistics...” in the context menu.
- The Statistics window will display reference data for this document.
If you click on the “Panel” button, a panel window will open in which the user can see the number of words in the document.
How to count characters in a selection in a Word 2003 document
To view data on the number of characters in a selected fragment of a Word 2003 document, do the following:
- Select the desired section of text in the document.
- In the “Tools” menu, click on the “Statistics...” item.
How to find out the number of characters in a Word document of any version
There is a very simple way to find out how many characters are contained in a Word document of any version of MS Word:
- Press the keyboard keys simultaneously: “Ctrl” + “Shift” + “G”.
- The “Statistics” window will open with complete information on the text of the document.
Select the desired fragment, and then press the keyboard keys to obtain statistics about the selected text fragment.
Conclusions of the article
To obtain information about the number of characters (characters) in a Word document of different versions of the program, there are several ways to display statistics. The user can obtain data for the entire Word document, or only for a selected fragment of text.
When developing abstracts, coursework, diploma projects, as well as other documents in text format, it is very important to keep within a certain number of words and characters. In addition, most users work with documents in the Microsoft Word office editor, which is multifunctional and universal, both for writing texts and for constructing various diagrams.
However, the point of today's article is to tell the reader how to find out the number of characters in a Word document.
- It is important to note!The instructions and methods that will be described in this article are suitable for all versions of Microsoft Word (Word 2003, Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2013, Word 2016, Word 2019).
How to find out the number of characters in a Word document
In fact, everything is quite simple and easy, and in order to find out the number of characters in a Word document, the user does not need to install additional program or something else. You just need to use the instructions in one of two ways.
- First of all, open the document in which you need to find out the number of characters. As soon as the document opens, you need to left-click on the inscription "Word count: ∞".
- After this, a pop-up window will appear with the name "Statistics", here you can see the number of words, characters with and without spaces, as well as the number of paragraphs and lines.
For office employees and experienced users, it is much more convenient to use a method that also allows you to find out the number of characters in the text. We will describe its essence and instructions below.
- Open a document with text content, or simply a document in which you need to count the number of words or characters. Then go to the tab "Review".
- In the tab "Review", you need to find the item "Statistics" and click on it.
- After these steps, a window with the name will appear "Statistics", here you can find out the number of characters, words, paragraphs and lines in Word text.
How to find out the number of characters in selected text in Word
If you need to find out how many characters are on one page of a document, or in a certain paragraph, then for this you can also use the counting tool Word characters. For clear example and understanding we brought detailed instructions in two ways.
Method number 1. Easy and fast (for beginners)
- Open a Word document. After this, select the piece of text that you want to analyze for the number of characters and words, and then click on the inscription "Word count: ∞ out of ∞".
- A window will appear saying "Statistics"
Method number 2. Standard (for office workers and advanced users)
- Open a Word document. After that, highlight the piece of text that you want to analyze for the number of characters and words, and then go to the tab "Review".
- In the tab "Review", you need to find the item "Statistics" and click on it.
- Then a window will appear saying "Statistics", here you will see the number of words and characters in the piece of text you highlighted.
If you constantly work with texts, then you simply need to learn new features and functions of the Word office editor to improve your skills and experience. After all, the presence great experience will allow you to reduce to a minimum the time you spend working with each text, especially if your industry is related to journalism, rewriting, copywriting, or website text editor. Thus, even the function of counting characters and words in text is useful, allowing you to quickly find out data about a document or a piece of text.
Video: How to count the number of characters in a Word document
Video: How to find out the number of characters in a text
In world wide web There are many different programs for counting the number of characters in a given text. These can be either small programs specially developed for this purpose or various text editors.
The most popular way Determining the number of characters in a text has been and remains the time-tested text editor Microsoft Word for many users.
Determining the number of characters for whole text
You need to place the cursor at the beginning of the text, more precisely, before the first character of the text. Then you should find and use the “Statistics” tool in the Word editor, which is ideally suited for such calculations.
Looking for Statistics inWord 2007
1) Place the text in the Word 2007 editor.
2) Place the cursor at the beginning of the text.
3) Find the bottom line in the Word editor, which is called the status bar (number 2 in Fig. 1):
4) Click on the “Number of words” option (number 1 in Fig. 1), after which the “Statistics” window appears. Here we see that the number of characters (without spaces) is 2.304, and with spaces – 2.651.
By the way, if someone tells you that you need, for example, 2000 characters, without specifying whether with or without spaces, then this means “with spaces.”
All this is good. But what if there is a status bar in Word 2007, but there is no “Number of words” option in it?
In this case, click on an empty space in the status bar with RMB (right mouse button), for example, in the place where the number 2 is in Fig. 1. The “Status Bar Settings” window will appear (Fig. 2):
Rice. 2. Check for a checkmark next to the “Number of words” option in the Word status bar
Here you should check the box next to the “Number of words” option (number 2 in Fig. 2). After which it will automatically appear in the status bar of Word.
Statistics in Word 2010
Everything here coincides exactly with what is written above about Word 2007.
Looking for Statistics in Word 2003
With the left mouse button, you need to single-click on the “Service” function located in the top panel of Word (Fig. 3).
In the window that opens, select the “statistics” sub-item, after a single click on which a small “Statistics” window appears in the center of the Word text editor with all the necessary statistical information about the text. The number of pages, words, characters (without spaces and with spaces), paragraphs and lines is determined:
Counting characters in a piece of text
Often there is a need to calculate the number of characters for a specific part of the text. This is not difficult to do in Word:
1) you just need to select the required part of the text to count the number of characters and
2) find the “Statistics” window (that is, perform the same manipulations as described above for the whole text).
What is a sign reader?
There are so-called “character counters” on the Internet – services designed to count the number of characters in online text. Online services are convenient because you do not need to install any programs on your computer.
Online services operate on the principle of “here and now”, “take and use”, as they say, “without leaving the cash register”, more precisely, without leaving the Internet. While on the Internet, it is enough to open such an online service and use its services.
To find such services, just enter the query “sign readers” in a search engine (Yandex, Google, etc.) and click on one of the first links that will be offered by the search engine.
In Fig. 4 shows an example of a Sign Counter.
Rice. 4 Count the number of characters in text online using Sign Counter
2) Copy this text to the clipboard, for example, using Ctrl+C.
3) Open the Sign Reader.
4) Paste the text from the clipboard, for example, using the hot keys Ctrl+V.
6) A window will appear with the results of counting the number of characters (number 2 in Fig. 4).
Accurate counting of characters is necessary, for example, for freelancers whose copywriters are paid precisely for “volume”, that is, for a certain number of characters with or without spaces in the written text. It may also be useful for those users who need to place a certain number of characters in any service, no more than a certain number, for example, no more than 140 or 255 characters.
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