For some, writing comes easy. It may feel like mere seconds for words to start flying off the page as the final word count nears thousands. For others, it may take several painstaking hours to muster ...

Staying under the prescribed word count can be a challenging task. For example, if you are writing a 500-word marketing pitch in Google Docs (you're probably using your sleek new Chromebook), the ...

As one would expect, Microsoft Word includes a feature to count the words in a document; it also includes the ability to count the characters. Knowing the character count of a document is important ...

There are three ways to check your word count in Microsoft Word. You can find your word count in Microsoft Word at the bottom of the window, or by opening the "Review" menu. If you add word count to ...

TextEdit, the simple text editor program built into macOS (and Mac OS X before it), has many attractive qualities – so much so that this very article is currently being typed into it despite the ...