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

From design elements to filters and fun badges, these text-on-photo apps have much more than type editing tools, too. Continue on to find out how to create pictures worth a thousand words.

Accessing your word count data in the Word app is a little bit more complicated, but it can still be done from the Review tab. Tap the up arrow in the toolbar at the bottom.

Once chosen, the app will apply the words to the photo. Even though you can't pick any of your own words, the app allows you to see how the finished picture will look.

First, you will need to place the mouse cursor on the section of the document where you want the word count to appear. After that, click on the “Insert” tab at the top of Microsoft Word, and ...

iWork ‘08’s Pages word processor also includes a word count feature, but it’s not quite as easy to use as the one in Word. To see Page’s word count, you first need to open the Inspector ...