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 ...

You can check the word count on Google Docs under the Tools section. On desktop, word count can be kept on the page at all times with the toggling of a checkbox. You can also check word count on ...

If you are new to Google Docs and would like to know-how to display the word count for a document, page or selection of text. This quick guide will show you how you can easily view a word count when ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s a popular idea that how you use your keywords is important for SEO. Various SEO software analyze search results to provide word count information. Many SEOs recommend analyzing the search ...

As regular Business Hacks readers know, I'm a big fan of using keyboard shortcuts--especially in Microsoft Word. But there are some program functions, like Word Count, that don't have shortcuts ...