If earlier when working with texts the main unit of measurement was one sheet, now it is one character. A sign or symbol refers to letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and spaces. There are two types of counting - counting the number of characters with spaces and the number of characters without spaces.
How to count the number of characters in a text in three simple ways
1. Visual method, when the number of characters can be determined “by eye”, approximately. It is enough to count the number of characters in one line and the number of lines on a sheet. Then you need to multiply these two numbers and get the result.
For reference: on the page Microsoft Word With standard settings fonts and indentations per line of about 60 characters with spaces and up to 50 lines. But this will be an approximate figure.
How to count the number of characters in text using Word
2. If you work with Microsoft Word, you can use the special character counting function that is in the menu. How to do this?
– select or paste the desired fragment;
– find “Number of words” in the bottom line, click;
– in the “Statistics” window that opens, look at the necessary information.
– select or paste the desired piece of text;
– click “Service” in the top menu bar;
– go to the “Statistics” section;
– obtain a quantitative analysis of the fragment.
How to count the number of characters in a text online
3. There are a lot of sites on the Internet where you can check spelling and the number of characters in the text. Such sites are called “counting tables”. For example, to work with texts you can use: simvoli.net, text.ru, vipkontent.ru. All these sites do not require mandatory registration.
– go to one of the proposed sites (I use the site simvoli.net) or type in a search engine: “how to count the number of characters in a text”;
– paste previously copied text in which you need to count the characters;
– analyze the information received.
In order to attract more users, each “reader” offers its own list of additional services.
So on the site vipkontent.ru, in addition to the standard counting of characters, there is also a counting of commas, spaces and paragraphs. On the website simvoli.net you can do calculations plus text analysis. And text.ru has a high-quality check for uniqueness and SEO analysis.
It may seem that the above information is needed by a limited number of people. But that's not true. Counting characters in text is often done, starting with school essays and college essays. coursework, ending with the publication of books and newspapers. This method is also widely used for working on the Internet. One character is a unit for calculating the cost of a text document. Even ordinary person V everyday life Faces this challenge by placing an ad in a newspaper or leaving a comment on a website.
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 reader.
Rice. 4 Count the number of characters in the text online using the 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.
Copy Clear
Brief description of the online service
Using this online service You can count the number of characters, words and lines. The length of a given text is determined both with and without spaces. The result of the automatic counting of characters (letters, special characters, numbers, punctuation marks), as well as the total number individual words and lines you can see right below the input form.Why is our text length analyzer useful?
- No need to count characters, words and lines manually.
- Saves time when filling out forms and questionnaires on various sites.
- Not overloaded with unnecessary functions.
- There is no need to install special applications and programs on your computer.
- Allows you to edit a text message directly in the input form in real time online.
- Allows you not to copy the source text into Word for counting, but to determine the number of characters online.
Who is the tool intended for?
- Copywriters, rewriters, editors and proofreaders. When writing technical specifications on content exchanges, the customer almost always indicates the required length of the finished text. Therefore, the tool will be useful for authors to check the number of characters before sending an article for review to the customer. Moreover, you can trim text and remove stop words directly in the text input window.
- For text customers and SEO specialists. The calculator allows you to quickly calculate the number of characters before paying for a copywriter’s work or measure the length of an article before publishing it on the site.
- Users of phones, gadgets, instant messengers and various websites. Sometimes a situation occurs when the phone balance is almost zero - there is enough money for one or two SMS, and there is no way to top up your account in at the moment just no. Or you need not to exceed the well-known character limit in one Twitter message or some messenger. There is also huge amount other sites where similar restrictions apply, for example, everyone’s favorite Instagram. The character counting service will help you stay within the specified limits.
One day we received this letter from a novice copywriter:
Hello! I recently learned about copywriting and decided to try my hand at it. And now, communicating with one of my own potential clients, I fell into a stupor from him the following questions: “Well, how much do you want per kilo? How much does a kilosign of text cost? What is the price per thousand characters? Can you tell me the price for a thousand characters without spaces of the rewrite?” I can’t understand what he wants from me? Are articles sold by the kilogram? If so, how to weigh them?
Experienced wordsmiths were probably smiling now. Of course, they understand what we are talking about. But what about beginners who can only intuitively try to understand this tricky slang of optimizers? This is what we will now try to help.
What did the optimizer ask the copywriter?
So, first of all, let’s figure out what the optimizer asked the novice copywriter about, and whether texts are really sold by weight.
No, of course, texts are not sold by weight (at least not yet). The most common way to estimate the cost of a copywriter’s work is to count the total number of characters (symbols) in the text without spaces and pay the agreed price per 1000 characters.
Price per kilo? Price per kilo? Cost of a thousand characters of text? How much is a thousand characters worth? - all these questions are asked with the goal of getting an answer from the copywriter about his prices for writing text of a thousand characters without spaces.
How to calculate the cost of a text?
For example, a copywriter wrote a text that consists of 2450 characters without spaces. Well, let’s say that the cost of 1000 characters without spaces is $2. To calculate the price of a written article, we must divide the total number of characters by 1000 and multiply by the price (in our case, by $2):
2450 / 1000 * 2 = 4,9$
From the example above, we see that the text written by a copywriter will cost $4.9. And there would be nothing complicated here if not for one question: How to calculate this very number of characters without spaces?
Use online services. On the Internet you can find many different online services for counting the number of characters in texts. But are they convenient to use? We think not. There are at least two reasons for this:
- 1. You have to make extra “body movements”. A copywriter writes an article (most often in Microsoft Word). And so, in order to check the number of characters through the online service, he must copy all the text from Word and paste it into the window on the service’s website, then click the “check” button and wait a while until the page is reloaded and the service displays the result. We believe that in our age of cybernetics and high technology, this useless waste of one’s time is simply unacceptable.
- 2. What to do if the Internet is turned off? A trivial situation: a thunderstorm passed, the equipment of the Internet provider could not withstand the overload and broke down. The copywriter calmly finishes his article while offline. And now he needs to count the number of characters in the text, but, alas, the service is unavailable.
There are many more reasons that speak against online services for counting the number of characters in texts, but we probably won’t waste time describing them. And it is clear that this method is not a very good solution.
Install special programs. You can find many special free programs, which have a function for counting the number of characters in the text. Here you are no longer afraid of an Internet shutdown, but you still have to make unnecessary movements. In addition, we believe that it is unwise to install additional software on your computer just to be able to count the number of characters in an article.
How can this be? Is there a convenient way to count the number of characters?
Of course it exists! And we will tell you about it now.
The most convenient and effective way to count the number of characters in an article
Counting the number of characters in text using Microsoft Word 2007. If you use this particular version of Word, then to count the number of characters you need to do the following:
- Go to the “Review” tab, which is located in the top horizontal menu.
- Find the statistics calculation button in the leftmost block. This is a white square with the numbers “1,2,3” written inside it, and above this square are the letters “ABC”.
- Click on this button, and a plate with statistics of your text appears in front of you.
By the way, you will receive not only information about the number of characters without spaces. Word provides data on the number of words, lines, pages, paragraphs, and characters with spaces in the text. For clarity, we have prepared the following picture for you:
Another interesting point is that you can get information both for the entire article and for its individual fragment. To do this, you simply need to select the desired section of text with the mouse cursor and click on the statistics calculation button, as shown in the figure:
Counting the number of characters in text using Microsoft Word 2003. If you could not find the tabs and menus in the interface of your Word program that are shown in the pictures above, then most likely you are using old version program - Microsoft Word 2003. We hasten to reassure you right away - this version is also capable of producing the same statistics. To do this you need:
- Go to the “Service” tab, which is located in the top horizontal menu of the program.
- From the drop-down list, select “Statistics”.
- Click on this item with the left mouse button and enjoy the result.
With the help of such simple steps, you can quickly and efficiently obtain data on the number of characters without spaces in the article you wrote. The advantages of this method are obvious:
- 1. A minimum of “body movements” - you don’t need to copy the text and paste it somewhere.
- 2. No need to install additional software.
- 3. No internet access required.
Agree, it is really convenient and comfortable! The Textodrom team wishes you success in mastering the intricacies of the copywriting profession. We hope our publications help you quickly find answers to all your questions.
Online tool for counting any number of characters in a text. Using this tool, you can easily find out how many characters are in the text, how many characters are in the text without a space, how many punctuation marks, spaces and paragraphs. You can also remove duplicate lines (if any), remove stop words, remove HTML tags from the text and trim the text to the required number of characters.
Why count and process characters in text?
This tool will be useful for copywriters, rewriters and SEO specialists. You can trim the text and remove stop words for further publication on the customer’s website. Using the HTML tag removal function, you can copy the source text directly from the site, and then simply remove all HTML tags with one click, leaving you with clean and ready-made text for further processing.
What can the character counting tool do?
Our tool is quite easy to use, but very powerful in functionality. Detailed description See below for all functions.
- Count the number of characters (including characters without space)
- Counting the number of words in a text
- Counting the number of commas and periods in text
- Counting the number of special characters (%$#&*+-@, etc.)
- Counting the number of digits in text
- Counting the number of spaces and paragraphs in text
- Supports unlimited characters*
- Removing stop words (Russian and English stop words are supported)
- Removing duplicate lines (if there are two or more identical lines in the text)
- Removing HTML tags from text (, ...
, ..., ... and other HTML tags, including classes and identifiers.)
- Trimming text to a certain number of characters (for example, the text has 5000 characters, enter the value 1500 in the special field and click on the trim button, after which the text will have exactly 1500 characters.)
What special characters are counted?
Below are special characters that may be in your text. When they are detected, you will see their number in a special line.
-\§#!$*%+&"−()`⁄:;<=>?@_{|}~№«»€
What stop words are on the list?
Our list of stop words contains the following words, phrases, letters, etc.:
Russian safe words:
a, big, would, without, more, was, was, were, was, be, in, you, you, after all, all, here, all, all, all, you, along, instead of, out, down, below, inside, around, always, everyone, say, year, where, yes, for, before, come on, give, even, enough, more, him, her, hers, if, there is, yet, same, know, for, here, and, because of, or, to them, to have, their, from, to, how, which, somehow, who, when, except, whether, or, to me, maybe, my, my, can, we, on, our, not, her, no, but, on, forever, over, must, our, him, her, nor, him, them, well, oh, that, from, one, about, however, he, she, they, it, from, why, very, by, under, after, because, because, almost, with, about, with, your, yourself, say, again, with, that, such, only, that, you, so, also , such, there, those, those, then, that, too, that, only, that, here, you, already, although, y, that, what, something, whose, than, what, so that, whose, whose , whose, this, this, these, this, this, meEnglish safe words:
about, above, according, across, actually, ad, adj, ae, af, after, i, he, to, of, and, in, is, it, for, that, if, you, this, be, on, with, not, have, are, or, as, from, can, but, by, at, an, will, no, all, la, last, later, latter, lb, lc, least, less, let, let" s, li, was, do, there, my, one, so, sa, same, sb, sc, sd, se, seem, seemed, seeming, seems, seven, seventy, several, sg, sh, she, she" d, she"ll, she"s, was, wasn, wasn"t, we, we"d, we"ll, we"re, we"ve, web, webpage, website, welcome, well, were, weren't, weren"t, wf, what, what"ll, what"s, whatever, when, whence, whenever, where, they, would, any, which, ye, yes, yet, you, you"d, you"llThe list of stop words is constantly updated. If you want to add any safe words, please write to us using the feedback form. We will definitely add new significant stop words to our stop list.
* — the limit on the number of characters inserted and processed at one time is 1,000,000 characters without spaces.
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