Counting the number of words in a document (Word or OpenOffice)

Last update on April 24, 2009 11:08 AM by netty5
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Counting the number of words in a document (Word or OpenOffice.org)









It is sometimes useful to count the number of words or characters in a document. The two major office suites can do it very simply:

Microsoft Word


• Open your document on Word
• Click on File then Properties
• Word will display general information about the files, including the number of characters and words.

OpenOffice.org


If you want to count the number of words or number of characters in a document

• You simply open it with OpenOffice.org.
• Then, go to Tools> Statistics
• OOo will display a window showing the number of words and characters throughout the document, as well as selected text!
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