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Word counts the number of words in a document while you type. Word also counts pages, paragraphs, lines, and characters.

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When you need to know how many words, pages, characters, paragraphs, or lines are in a document, check the status bar.


Partial word count

For a partial word count, select the words you want to count. The status bar shows the word count for that selection and for the entire document.

Tip: Find the number of characters, paragraphs, and lines by clicking on the word count in the status bar.
Word count detail

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.

Word count dialog box

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.

Just like the Word desktop program, Word for the web counts words while you type.

Word Count

If you don’t see the word count at the bottom of the window, make sure you’re in Editing view (click Edit Document > Edit in Word for the web).

Click the word count to switch it off and on.

Word Count Disabled

Maybe you noticed that Word for the web gives you an approximate word count. That’s because it doesn’t count words in areas like text boxes, headers, footers, and SmartArt graphics. If you need an exact count, click Open in Word, and look at the word count at the bottom of the Word document window.

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Are you looking for an easy way to check the word count in your Microsoft Word document? Word has an easy-to-use, built-in tool that keeps track of your word count in each of its versions, including desktop, mobile or online. This wikiHow article will teach you how to view the word count for a section of text or your entire document in Microsoft Word.

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    Launch Microsoft Word. This can be done by double clicking on the Word icon on your desktop, in your Taskbar (Windows) or Dock (Mac). If you don’t see an icon, click on the ‘Start» menu in the lower left of your PC’s screen. Click on the ‘All Programs» drop down and select Microsoft Word.[1]

    • On Mac, click on the Launchpad (a gray rocketship) icon in your dock. Type ‘Word’ in the search bar at the top of the screen.

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    Navigate to an existing document. To open a document, go to the File menu, and then click on Open. A dialog box will appear with a list of available documents.[2]

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    Select a document. In the dialog box, navigate to the document you wish to open. Select the document, and once it’s highlighted, click on Open in the lower right of the dialog box.

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    Select Tools. Once your document is open, select the Tools menu at the top center of the window.[3]

    • This step only applies to a MAC OS.

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    Scroll to Word Count. In the Tools menu dropdown, click on «Word Count.»

    • If you’re not using a Mac, you won’t see any Tools heading at the top. In this case, go to the Review tab at the top of your document. Once there, you’ll see «Word Count» on the left-hand side of the section.

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    Review your word count. A box will open displaying the number of words, as well as the number of characters, paragraphs, lines and pages, contained in your document.

    • In many documents, the word count is displayed live on the left side of the bottom bar of the document window. Click on this word count to get additional information, such as the number of pages and characters.

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    Place your cursor at the beginning of the text you wish to count. Click on the beginning of the sentence, paragraph or section of text for which you want a word count.

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    Highlight the section of text. Drag your cursor to the end of the text section, which should now be highlighted in blue.

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    Click on the Tools menu. Select the Tools menu at the top center of the document window.

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    Click on Word Count. Select Word Count from the Tools menu dropdown. A box displaying the number of words, characters, lines, pages and paragraphs will appear on the screen.

    • The word count for a selected portion of text will usually be displayed in the bottom bar of your document.

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    Launch the Microsoft Word mobile app. On your smartphone or tablet, tap on the Word app to launch it.

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    Open a document. The app will usually open the last document you were working on. If not, you will see a list of recently-opened files. Tap on the file you wish to work on.

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    Tap the Edit menu. Once your document is open, tap on the Edit menu (a capital «A» with a pencil icon) on top center of your screen. The Edit menu will open in the bottom half of your screen.

    • In Word for iPad, simply tap on the «Review» menu at the top center of the tablet’s screen.

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    Tap on «Home.» Home is located on the left side of the Edit menu bar. This will open a pop-up menu.

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    Tap on «Review.» The Review menu is near the bottom of the Edit menu pop-up.

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    Tap on «Word Count.» Word Count is near the bottom of the Review menu. When you tap it, the number of words, characters and pages in your document will be displayed.

    • In Word for iPad, word count is an icon, several lines with the numbers «123» displayed in the upper left, in the main menu bar under the Review menu.
    • Highlight a section of text by tapping on it with your fingers, then tap on Word Count to display the number of words in the highlighted portion of your document.

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    Launch Word online. Navigate to office.live.com and log in with your Microsoft ID and password or choose to use the free version.

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    Open a document. On the left side of your screen, select a recent document.

    • If you don’t see the document you want to edit, select Open from One Drive or Open from Dropbox in the lower left corner of the window.

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    Review the word count. Once you have an open document, check the bottom left, side of the document. The word count automatically appears in the lower scroll bar.

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    Highlight the passage; it should show the word count.

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    Select all of the words in the header and the word count for the words you highlighted will be displayed in the word count box on the status bar.

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  • On Word for PC/Mac, make sure the Microsoft Word window is fully maximized. Otherwise, the window can be moved within your viewable area, and the Word Count in the lower portion of the document could be hidden.

  • To ensure the word count is always visible in your documents, select View from the Preferences menu in the upper left corner of your Mac or PC. The check the box to the left of «Live Word Count.»

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Typing out essays and theses on a computer is obligatory in colleges and universities nowadays. Most academic documents are restricted in length, be it 1,000 or 80,000 words. It’s important to stay within the limit, as exceeding the limit can incur a penalty. Similarly, writing too few words can cost you marks [source: City University]. Most people type out their documents in Microsoft Word. However not everyone is familiar with Word’s many little tricks. Here’s how to count the number of words in your document using Microsoft Word.

In order to count words, the computer has to know what words you want to count. You tell it this information by highlighting the text in question. If this is the entire document, press the Ctrl key and press the A key at the same time. This will highlight the whole text. You can remove your fingers and the text will remain highlighted.

Here’s how to count words in Microsoft Word 2003:

  1. Select Tools from the tool bar on the top of the page.
  2. Select Word Count from the dropdown menu that appears. A box will appear, giving you information about the text that you highlighted, including the number of words it contains.
  3. Include the words in the footnotes and endnotes if those words are counted in the total number of words allowed in your paper. Simply click on Include footnotes and endnotes, in the lower left corner of the box, and these words will be included in the total number of words [source: Microsoft].

Here’s how to count words in Microsoft Word 2007:

  1. Highlight the text whose words you would like to count. The number of words you’ve highlighted will be displayed on the status bar at the bottom of the screen, as a fraction of the total number of words in the document.
  2. Include footnotes in the word count by selecting Review on the toolbar. Then select Proofing, and then Word Count. Select Include Textboxes, Footnotes and Endnotes. The total number of words counted will be displayed in the status bar [source: Microsoft].

Originally Published: Jun 30, 2011

Count Words in Word FAQ

How do I get the word count in Word?

To see the number of words in a whole document, simply find the word count in the status bar at the bottom left of the page. Alternatively, ensure no text is highlighted and right click to see a status bar and select “Word Count.”

How do you count the number of words in a paragraph?

To get the word count of a specific paragraph in MS Word, use your cursor to click and drag over the text until it’s highlighted. Then check the displayed word count in the lower left status bar.

What is the shortcut key for word count?

In Microsoft Word, the keyboard shortcut for opening the word count dialog box is Ctrl + Shift + G.

How do I count the words in a Word table?

You can count the number of words in Tables in a Word document by holding down on left click and scrolling down until the whole table has been highlighted. The number of words in the table will appear at the bottom of the Word document in the status bar.

Does the word count in Word include comments?

Yes. Comments are included in the word count of a document of Microsoft Word. However, endnotes, footnotes and appendices are not counted.

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I know what you’re thinking: “What’s there to learn about the word count in Microsoft Word? The number is right there at the bottom of the screen!” And that is true. Unless you’ve changed your default settings, the count always appears in the left-hand side of the status bar below your document. But Word’s word count tool can do more than provide the total number of words.

This tutorial shows you (1) how to count words in specific sections and (2) how to open the Word Count dialog box to see additional statistics such as character counts with and without spaces, as well as how to exclude textboxes, footnotes, and endnotes from the count.

And don’t miss the bonus section featuring keyboard shortcuts for selecting text in Word and other Windows applications.

This tutorial is available as a YouTube video showing all the steps in real time.

Watch more than 150 other writing-related software tutorials on my YouTube channel.

The images below are from Word for Microsoft 365. These steps also apply to Word 2021, Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013, Word 2010, and most earlier versions of Word. However, your interface may look slightly different in older versions.

How to View the Word Count for Specific Sections

To view the number of words in a specific sentence, paragraph, page, or section, select only that text. (See the bonus section below featuring Windows keyboard shortcuts for selecting text.)

Image of Selected Text in Word 365 / Word 2019 | Step 1 in How to View the Word Count in Microsoft Word

Figure 1. Selected text

The word count in the status bar at the bottom left-hand corner of your screen will then update to say “[#] of [#] words.” Once you deselect the text, the count will return to the total for the entire document.

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Figure 2. Word count of selected text

Text Selection Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

If you want to select multiple sections of text in different locations in the document, press Ctrl as you make the selections. While pressing Ctrl, the text in between your selections shouldn’t be selected.

Here are six Windows keyboard shortcuts that make automatic selections:

Select everything from the cursor to the end of the paragraph:
Ctrl + Shift + Down Arrow

Select everything from the cursor to the beginning of the paragraph:
Ctrl + Shift + Up Arrow

Select everything from the cursor to the end of the screen:
Ctrl +Shift + Alt + PgDn (Page Down)

Select everything from the cursor to the beginning of the screen:
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + PgUp (Page Up)

Select everything from the cursor to the end of the document:
Ctrl + Shift + End

Select everything from the cursor to the beginning of the document:
Ctrl + Shift + Home

How to View the Word Count Dialog Box and Exclude Textboxes, Footnotes, and Endnotes

To open the Word Count dialog box, select the word count in the status bar or press Ctrl + Shift + G on your keyboard.

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Figure 3. Word count in status bar

The Word Count dialog box shows the number of pages, words, characters with and without spaces, paragraphs, and lines in your document.

Figure 4. Word count dialog box

Note that the lines statistic in the Word Count dialog box represents the number of individual lines with letters or numbers in them, not the number of sentences. The number of lines in your document will be affected by your font size (i.e., the bigger the font, the more lines you will have.)

Uncheck “Include textboxes, footnotes and endnotes” if you want to exclude everything in those sections from the word count. The count will update immediately.

Image of the Word Count Dialog Box "Include textboxes, footnotes and endnotes" Checkbox in Word 365 / Word 2019

Figure 5. Word Count dialog box “Include textboxes, footnotes and endnotes” checkbox

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Updated February 25, 2022

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Get an accurate character count and word count in Microsoft Word

Updated on October 4, 2019

When you work on blog posts, technical manuals, academic papers, and other documents, you may need to know how many words are in the document or the number of characters in the title. Microsoft Word contains multiple ways to get an accurate count of the number of words or characters in a document. Word also calculates the number of words or characters in selected blocks of text.

Instructions in this article apply to Word for Microsoft 365, Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013, Word 2010, and Word Online.

How to Display Word Count in Microsoft Word

To turn on the word count in Word:

  1. Open Word.

  2. Right-click the Status bar at the bottom of the window.

  3. Select Word Count.

  4. The word count for the entire document displays in the Status bar.

    In Word Online, if the word count doesn’t display at the bottom of the window, select Edit Document and choose Edit in Word for the web.

  5. To display the word count for a particular selection, highlight the text you want to count.

How to Get Detailed Information on Word Count

To view more detailed information about the word count:

  1. Open the Word document.

  2. Go to the Review tab.

  3. In the Proofing group, choose Word Count.

  4. The Word Count dialog box lists the number of pages, word count, character count, paragraph count, and line count. You can opt not to include text boxes, footnotes, and endnotes.

How to View Word Count in Microsoft Word With a Shortcut

To use a keyboard shortcut to view the word count and other information:

  1. Open the Word document.

  2. Press Ctrl+Shift+G.

  3. In the Word Count dialog box, clear the Include text boxes, footnotes and endnotes checkbox if you don’t want to include these in the word count.

  4. Select Close when you’re finished.

In Word for Mac, to count part of the words in a document, select the text you want to count, go to the Tools menu, then select Word Count.

How to Show the Word Count in a Field

Another way to display the word count of a document in Word is to add a field to the document.

To display the word count in a field:

  1. Place the cursor where you want the word count to appear.

  2. Go to the Insert tab.

  3. In the Text group, select Quick Parts, then choose Field.

  4. In the Field names list, choose NumWords, then select OK.

  5. Right-click the field and select Update Field to update the word count.

Word updates the word count automatically when you print the file. Select File > Options > Display, then go to the Printing options section and select Update fields before printing.

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Want to know the exact word count of your Microsoft Word document? Learn how to do it in just a few clicks!

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Sometimes it is vital to know the number of words in a document, especially where the word limit is pre-defined. It could be when you are submitting some online forms or writing answers. Knowing the word count is also necessary when you’re writing an article, a book, or an essay for a school project.

Fortunately, Microsoft Word allows you to do a word count easily on any document. Let’s explore how to do that on Windows, macOS, an Android phone, and an iPhone.

How to Do a Word Count in Microsoft Word on Windows

There are three ways you can do a word count in a Word document on Windows.

1. Word Count on the Status Bar

  1. Begin by opening the Word app or any Word document on your Windows PC.
  2. If you’re working on a new blank document, start typing. Word automatically counts the number of words after each space you give—and displays the word count on the status bar at the bottom of the document. Just check the status bar for the word count.
    Word Count Showing on Status Bar in Microsoft Word
  3. If you have opened a document you had worked on earlier, the number of words will show in the status bar. If no word count is visible on the status bar, right-click the status bar and click Word Count in the Customize Status Bar menu.
    Word Count Option in Customize Status Bar Menu
  4. You can also count the number of words in a portion of the text in the document. Select the text and check the status bar—it will display the word count in the following way: 23 of 87 words, as you can see in the screenshot below.
    Word Count of Selected Text on Status Bar
  5. You can even count the words of separate portions of text together. To do that, select the first text portion in the document, then press Ctrl and continue selecting the other portions of text. The combined word count of the different text portions will display on the status bar.
    Combined Word Count of Multiple Text Selections
  6. To know the number of document pages, paragraphs, characters, and lines along with the words, click the word count displayed on the status bar. The Word Count box will pop up with all the information.
    Word Count Box Open on Word Document

If you have text boxes in your document, the word count will also include the number of words in the text boxes.

2. Word Count via the Review Tab

Another way to get to the Word Count box is via the Review tab on the Word ribbon.

  1. On an open Word document, click on the Review tab on the ribbon.
  2. In the Proofing section on the ribbon, you will see the Word Count icon with lines and 123 written. Click on it, and the Word Count box will pop up with the word count and the number of pages, paragraphs, lines, and characters.
    Check Word Count in Word Count Box Via Review Tab
  3. The option to include footnotes, textboxes, and endnotes while counting words will be turned on by default in the Word Count box. If you want to turn it off, untick the box next to the option.

3. Word Count via the Quick Access Toolbar

If you prefer using Word’s Quick Access Toolbar, you can include the Word Count option in it.

  1. Right-click the Word Count option in the Proofing section on the ribbon. Select Add to Quick Access Toolbar.
    Option to Add Word Count in Quick Access Toolbar
  2. The Word Count icon with the lines and 123 will now appear on top of the ribbon before the down-arrow menu of Customize Quick Access Toolbar.
    Word Count Icon on Quick Access Toolbar
  3. So now, you can open the Word Count box and do the word count by clicking on this Word Count icon on top of the ribbon—no need to first click the Review tab and then the Word Count icon.
    Check Word Count from Quick Access Toolbar

If it’s needed, you can also insert the number of words that are in your document on the document itself.

  1. First, click the place in the document where you want to add the word count.
  2. Then in the Insert tab, in the Text section, click Quick Parts > Field.
    Select Field in Quick Parts
  3. In the Field names list, click NumWords, and then click OK.
    NumWords Field in Filed List
  4. The number of words will appear on the document. As you can see in the screenshot below, 91 words is showing.
    Number of Words Inserted in Document

Yes, it’s easy to do a word count in Microsoft Word. However, if the Word app fails to open in Windows, you can explore these few fixes.

How to Do a Word Count in Microsoft Word on macOS

The Microsoft Word app is no different on macOS than on Windows. There is another way to do word count, as you will read below.

  1. Launch the Word app from your Dock on your MacBook. Then open a document from the Recent documents list.
  2. To count the words in the open document, click on Tools on the top bar.
  3. Then in the Tools menu, click on Word Count.
    Word Count Option in Tools Menu on a MacBook
  4. The Word Count box will open with the count of the pages, words, characters, lines, and paragraphs.
    Word Count Box in a Word Document on MacBook
  5. To know the number of words in a portion of the text, make your text selection, and view the word count from the Word Count option in the Tools menu.

2. Word Count From the Status Bar

You can view the number of words in a document in the status bar on the lower-left part of the document. You’ll always find this word count displayed, and it will increase or decrease as you type more or delete text.

Moreover, you can also 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.

Word Count of Selected Text from Status Bar on MacBook

Moreover, you can also view the word count in Apple Pages on your Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

How to Do a Word Count in the Word App on Mobile

It’s quite simple to do a word count in the Microsoft Word app on your mobile. Let’s see how.

  1. Open a document on the Word mobile app on your phone.
  2. On Android: Tap Edit on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. A menu will appear on top of the screen. On this top menu, tap the Edit menu icon, which has a capital «A» with a pencil.
  3. On iPhone: When you open a document, the Edit menu icon with the capital «A» with a pencil will be on top of the screen. Tap on it.
  4. From the bottom of the screen, the Edit menu will open up. You will find a blue Home button with up and down arrow keys on top of the menu. Tap on it to view the options.
  5. Then tap on Review. The Review menu will open.
  6. Now scroll down, and you will see the Word Count option with the icon of lines and 123. Tap on Word Count.
  7. The Word Count section will open with the number of Pages, Words, Characters with no spaces, and Characters with spaces. You’ll also find the option to include textboxes, footnotes, and endnotes turned on by default.
  8. To know the number of words for a specific portion of text, tap and press the word from where you want to make the selection. The selection markers will appear, so just drag the second marker to the end of your selection.
  9. Now repeat steps 2-6 from above. The Word Count section will open, displaying the number of words in the selected text.

Work Better Knowing the Word Count in Microsoft Word

Indeed, many times knowing the number of words, pages, lines, and paragraphs in a Word document is vital for the work you’re doing. And now you know how to do that. If you find that the word count is not showing in Microsoft Word, read on to explore the ways to fix that.

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COUNT THE WORDS AS YOU TYPE When you type in a document, Word automatically counts the number of pages and words in your document and displays them on the status bar at the bottom of the workspace. If you don’t see the word count in the status bar right-click the status bar and click Word Count.

Contents

  • 1 What words count in a word count?
  • 2 Is Microsoft Word word count accurate?
  • 3 Does word count include all words?
  • 4 What is the rule for word count?
  • 5 What words are not counted in essays?
  • 6 How many words does Harry Potter have?
  • 7 Does word count include full stops?
  • 8 Does a full stop count as a word?
  • 9 Does Turnitin Show word count?
  • 10 Does word count include prepositions?
  • 11 How do you count 150 words in an essay?
  • 12 How do you count 300 words in an essay?
  • 13 How do you manually count words in an essay?
  • 14 How can I find the word count of a book?
  • 15 How many words does a 300 page book have?
  • 16 How do you count words in an article?
  • 17 How do you count words in an assignment?
  • 18 How many words are in Percy Jackson?
  • 19 How many words are in the deathly hallows?
  • 20 How many words is the average novel?

What words count in a word count?

Word counts the number of words in a document while you type. Word also counts pages, paragraphs, lines, and characters. When you need to know how many words, pages, characters, paragraphs, or lines are in a document, check the status bar. For a partial word count, select the words you want to count.

Is Microsoft Word word count accurate?

That is because different writing platforms have different ways of calculating the word count of a file. For instance, Google Docs and Microsoft Office will give you two different word counts—even though the text being processed is the same! Thus, they are not entirely reliable.

Does word count include all words?

The word count is the number of words in a document or passage of text.

What is the rule for word count?

My general rule of thumb is you’re OK if you turn in an article with 5 percent fewer words to 5 percent more words than assigned. For a 500-word story, that would be 475 words to 525 words. For a 1,000-word story, that would be 950 words to 1,050 words. For a 3,000-word article, it would be 2,850 to 3, 150 words.

What words are not counted in essays?

For concise and meaningful writing, do your best to avoid these words and phrases in your admission essays.

  • 1) Contractions.
  • 2) Idioms.
  • 3-5) “So on,” “etc,” “and so forth“
  • 6) Clichés.
  • 7-11) “Thing,” “stuff,” “good,” “bad,” “big“
  • 12) Slang, jargon, teen speak.
  • 13) Rhetorical questions.

How many words does Harry Potter have?

1,084,170 words
The entire Harry Potter series – 1,084,170 words.

Does word count include full stops?

You’ll find use of brackets, hyphens with a space each side, symbols such as = and * with spaces each side, and full stops (e.g. or eg) can have a significant impact on character counts.

Does a full stop count as a word?

Are commas counted as a word? No punctuation is not counted as a word.

Does Turnitin Show word count?

Turnitin’s word count does not count the words in textboxes, footnotes, and endnotes. Turnitin will count each separate word within a URL, however a PDF or Word document will count a URL as one word.

Does word count include prepositions?

Small words such as “a” or “an” are counted. All prepositions, such as “in” or “at” are also counted. All words are counted.

How do you count 150 words in an essay?

How Many Pages Is 150 Words?

  1. Answer: 150 words is 0.3 pages single-spaced or 0.6 pages double-spaced.
  2. 150 words single-spaced is 0.3 pages.
  3. 150 words double-spaced is 0.6 pages.
  4. 150 words handwritten and single-spaced make 0.6 pages.
  5. 150 words is about 0.75-1.5 paragraphs for essays or 1-3 for easy reading.

How do you count 300 words in an essay?

HOW TO COUNT WORDS IN A COMPOSITION/ESSAY

  1. Step 1: Count words per each line.
  2. Step 2: Count the lines per page.
  3. Step 3: Multiply.
  4. Step 4: Because you already know the numbers of words per page, now multiply 176 by the total pages of your composition/essay.

How do you manually count words in an essay?

You know the minimum number of words you need to write for the essay is 250. So in this case, divide 250 with 6, to get 45 – the number of lines you will need to write to reach the word count. You would need about 3 extra lines to leave some space between each paragraph, so add it to 45 and you are left with 48 lines.

How can I find the word count of a book?

How to find a book’s word count: Go to that book’s page and scroll down to “Inside This Book.” Under that heading, click “Text Stats.” (It’ll be a blue link.) A new window will pop up. Under “Number of,” you’ll see “words.” That’s your number!

How many words does a 300 page book have?

90,000 words
How many words does a 300 page book have? A 300-page book word count average is about 90,000 words.

How do you count words in an article?

Use word count

  1. Open the Google Docs app .
  2. Open a document.
  3. Tap More .
  4. Tap Word count to see the number of: Words. Characters. Characters excluding spaces.

How do you count words in an assignment?

Insert the word count in your document

  1. Click in your document where you want the word count to appear.
  2. Click Insert > Quick Parts > Field.
  3. In the Field nameslist, click NumWords, and then click OK.
  4. To update the word count, right-click the number, and then choose Update Field.

How many words are in Percy Jackson?

The first book in Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series — The Lightning Thief — has 86,826 words. True, it goes over 80,000, but it stays under 90,000. The longest book in this series — at 97,069 words — is the fifth, The Last Olympian. And it still stays under 100,000 words.

How many words are in the deathly hallows?

198,227 words
How many words are in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows? There are 198,227 words. While knowing the total number of words in the Harry Potter series isn’t going to convince anyone to read all the books, knowing the total word count is an excellent way to encourage kids to read more.

How many words is the average novel?

Average Word Count For A Novel
The average word count for adult fiction is between 70,000 to 120,000 words. For children’s fiction, the general rule is the younger the audience the shorter the book, and for YA novels the average is 50,000-70,000 words.

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Whether you’ve written yourself a daily writing goal, are cramming word count for a final essay, or are just curious how long your novel is so far, calculating how many words you have written is a fairly common task. There are many ways to get an accurate word count including counting each word by hand, using an online word counter tool, or the easiest way of all…right in your word processor! That’s right, Microsoft Word (and Google Docs) have built-in word counters. Today we’ll walk you through how to use Microsoft Word’s word count tool.

Count Words as You Type in Microsoft Word

The simplest way to use the word counter in Microsoft Word is to just type your text and then look at the bottom left corner. Next to the page count, you should see your word count as you can see in the screenshot below:

Microsoft Word - word counter

If you’re unable to see the word count, you may need to right-click on the bottom left bar and select it:

Microsoft Word - word counter selection

If you want more details about your document, such as character or paragraph counts,  you can click on the word count and a new pop-up will display with these details:

Microsoft Word - word counter details

Getting Word Count Through the Ribbon

Another way you can get word count is through the Microsoft Office ribbon at the top of Microsoft Word. If you click on the “Review” tab, you’ll see “Word Count” right next to “Spelling & Grammar” and “Thesaurus.” This will open the same details pop-up as above.

Microsoft Word - word counter ribbon

Microsoft Word - word counter details

Count Words in a Selection

If you only want the amount of words in a certain selection of text, you can simply highlight that text and the word counter at the bottom will update to show only the word count in that selection:

Microsoft Word - word counter selection of text

Additionally, the details pop-up will also show the new selection data:

Microsoft Word - word counter selection of text details

Conclusion

Hopefully, this guide gave you a quick overview of how to do a word count in Word. If you won’t feel like copying your text into Word everytime you want to count the number of words, you can always use an online tool. We have a word counter tool and we’ve also built simple word counting into our title capitalization tool.

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Capitalize My Title is a dynamic title capitalization tool used to make sure your titles or headlines use proper capitalization rules according to various style guides include APA, AP, MLA, and Chicago. It also counts your words and checks for grammar issues.

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Microsoft Word logo on a blue background

Look in the bottom-left corner of the Microsoft Word window to see the word count of an entire document. To view the word count for a specific section of text, select the text with your cursor, and then look at the bottom-left corner of the window.

Depending on what you’re working on, such as an essay for a school assignment, you may have a specific word count you must reach (or not exceed). You can quickly tell what the current word count is in Microsoft Word.

You can get the word count for your entire Word document, or you can get the word count of just a specific section in Word for Windows.

Get the Word Count of an Entire Document

The easiest way to get the word count of your entire Word document is to simply check the status bar, as the word count is displayed by default. You can find the word count to the left of the status bar at the bottom of the window.

The word count in the status bar.

If you’re not seeing the word count in the status bar, it may have been previously disabled. You can bring the word count back by right-clicking any area of the status bar and then choosing “Word Count” from the context menu.

Alternatively, to get the word count, click the “Review” tab, and then choose “Word Count” in the Proofing group.

The Word Count dialog box will appear. You can find the word count next to Words.

The word count dialog.

Get the Word Count of a Specific Section of a Document

You can also get the word count of a specific section in a Word document. This is useful if you need to keep the entire word document within a certain word count but you feel you’re being too wordy in a specific section.

All you need to do is highlight the section of the document you want to get the word count of by clicking and dragging your mouse over the text. Once highlighted, the selected word count will appear in the status bar in an x of y format–x being the selected word count and y being the total word count of the document.

Word count of a specific section in the status bar.

Or, highlight the text you want to get the word count of, click “Word Count” in the “Review” tab, and then check the number next to Words in the dialog box.

Selected word count.

How to Check the Word Count in Microsoft Word for Mac

You can also get the word count of an entire Word document (or just a specific section) on Mac. The process is similar to that of Windows.

Get the Word Count of an Entire Document

To get the word count of your entire Word doc, just check the word count to the left of the status bar at the bottom of the window. The word count feature is added here by default.

Full word count in status bar.

If you don’t see the word count, it may have been previously disabled. You can bring it back by right-clicking anywhere on the status bar and then selecting “Word Count” from the context menu that appears.

You can also get the word count of the document by clicking “Tools” in the header menu and then choosing “Word Count.”

The word count is displayed next to Words.

Full word count in Mac's Word Count dialog.

Get the Word Count of a Specific Section of a Document

You can also get the word count of a specific section. To do this, highlight the text you want to get the word count of by clicking and dragging your cursor over the text. Once selected, check the word count in the status bar. The first number represents the selected word count.

Specific word count in status bar.

Or, open the Word Count dialog box (Tools > Word Count) and then check the number next to Words.

Selected word count in Word Count dialog on Mac.

Getting the word count isn’t the only feature available in Word. You can also get the page, character, paragraph, and line count, and see how long you’ve been working on a document. If you want, you can even insert the word count of your document into the document itself!

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