Following this tutorial, you’ll build a simple web app to store text notes and count characters and words in them. The app ...

If you've got a big piece to write with a strict word count, or you want to know how many characters you're writing to fit an online form, you'll want to know how to view word count in Google Docs.

Fortunately, Word has two built-in ways to count occurrences of a specific word. If that’s not flexible enough, you can use a Word VBA sub procedure. In this article, I’ll show you both built ...

It's been a long time coming, but Google Docs is finally getting a live word counter. It's heading to G Suite domains starting this week.

How to get a character count in Word with one click. You can add Word Count to Word's Quick Access toolbar — that's the row of icons at the top left of the title bar.

Left-click Word Count, hold it, and drag it up to any desirable spot on any of Word’s toolbars. If you’re not happy with the spot, just drag the new button somewhere else. Click the Close button.

Hog Bay Software on Monday released WriteRoom 3.0 for Mac, an update to its minimalist writing app—just in time for National Novel Writing Month.The latest version adds full support for OS X ...