One of the most common questions that we get in the Word Power section is how many words there are in the English language. Almost as common are requests for the average size of a person?s vocabulary.

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 ...

If you’re working on a piece in Google Docs, you may need a word count to check just how long it is (or needs to be). Google Docs doesn’t make this obvious — there’s no native word counter or quick ...

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 then ...

If you’re a writer, student, or anyone else constrained by word counts, you’re probably a regular user of Microsoft Word’s handy Word Count feature (which is accessible in the Tools menu). Wouldn’t it ...

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 ...

You can get a character count in a Word document by selecting the "Review" tab and clicking "Word Count." You can find both the number of characters with spaces and the character count not including ...

One of the things I see so often in the SEO space is that SEOs say you need your pages to have a word count of X for Google to want to index and rank it well. The truth is, that is not true - if it ...