Everyone whose work is related to translations or writing, from time to time it may be necessary to calculate the number of characters in the text, including spaces or without it. How to do it?
AT Microsoft Word characters are counted using the "Statistics" function in the "Tools" menu. You can find a function along the specified path in any version of the program. Word statistics will show the number of words, characters with and without spaces, double-byte and single-byte characters (this is not necessary for working with texts), as well as lines, pages and paragraphs.
If you activate the function after a piece of text is selected, information about its length will appear in a special window. Otherwise, you will get information about the entire document.
In versions of Word below 2007, with frequent use, it is advisable to transfer the function to To do this, you can drag the appeared window with statistics there or right-click on the panel and mark the "Statistics" item in the list.
In Word 2007 and 2010, the number of words in a document can be seen at the bottom left. If you double-click on this place, a window with other statistics items will appear.
For earlier versions of Word:
- From the Insert menu, select Field. will appear
- In the left part of the window, you will be prompted to select the category of the field and its value. In the category, select "About Document", and in the values - NumChars.
- Press OK, and a number will appear in the indicated place indicating the number of characters.
For Word 2007 and 2010:
- In the "Text" menu, select the "Insert" > "Quick Insert" tool, and then the "Field" item.
- Select the "About Document" category and the value of the NumChars field.
- Click OK.
In OpenOffice
To count the number of characters in an Open Office document, proceed in the same way as in Word. The statistics can be found in the "Tools" > "Word Count" menu. True, it is not as detailed as in Word. will only show the number of words in the document (or selection) and the number of characters with spaces.
If you need to search without spaces, you need to go to the document search and enter the expression [: space:] * in the field - it means a space. By clicking "Find All", you will see the number of spaces in the text, which will need to be subtracted from the figure obtained for characters with spaces.
In Excel
Using the LEN() or DLSTR() function, you can count the number of characters in a cell. The resulting value will take into account not only spaces, but also hyphens, if text was placed in the cell with division into paragraphs.
Despite these shortcomings, the function is convenient, for example, when working with a large amount of text, when counting characters is only one of a number of tasks. With the help of a number of others, you can keep detailed statistics of texts, count characters without spaces, and exclude some others (Latin, punctuation marks, numbers).
If earlier, when working with texts, the main unit of measurement was one sheet, now it is one character. Under the sign or symbol understand letters, numbers, punctuation marks, spaces. There are two types of counting - this is the count of the number of characters with spaces and the number of characters without spaces.
How to count the number of characters in a text in three easy ways
1. Visual method, when the number of characters can be determined "by eye", approximately. It is enough to count the number of characters in one line and lines per sheet. Then you need to multiply these two numbers and get the result.
For reference: on the Microsoft Word page with default settings fonts and indents in a line of about 60 characters with spaces and up to 50 lines. But this will be an approximate figure.
How to count the number of characters in a text using Word
2. If you work with Microsoft Word, you can use the special character count function that is on the menu. How to do it?
- select or paste the desired fragment;
- find in the bottom line "Number of words", click;
— View the required information in the “Statistics” window that opens.
- select or insert the desired piece of text;
- click "Service" in the top menu bar;
- go to the "Statistics" section;
- get a quantitative analysis of the fragment.
How to count the number of characters in a text online
3. There are many sites on the Internet where you can check the spelling and the number of characters in the text. Such sites are called "counters". For example, to work with texts, you can use: simvoli.net, text.ru, vipkontent.ru. All these sites do not require mandatory registration.
- go to one of the proposed sites (I use the site simvoli.net) or type in a search engine: “how to count the number of characters in a text”;
- paste the previously copied text in which you need to count the characters;
- analyze the received information.
In order to attract more users, each "counting room" offers its own list of additional services.
So on the site vipkontent.ru, in addition to the standard character count, there is also a count of commas, spaces and paragraphs. On the site simvoli.net you can do the calculation plus text analysis. And on text.ru there is a qualitative check for uniqueness and SEO analysis.
It may seem that the above information is needed by a limited circle of people. But it's not. Counting characters in text is done frequently, starting with school essays and institute term papers ending with the publication of books and newspapers. Also, this method is widely used for working on the Internet. One character is a unit for calculating the cost of a text document. Even the average person faces this challenge in their daily lives by posting an ad in a newspaper or posting a comment on a website.
If you work in MS Word, performing a particular task in accordance with the requirements put forward by a teacher, boss or customer, for sure, one of the conditions is strict (or approximate) compliance with the number of characters in the text. You may need to know this information solely for personal purposes. In any case, the question is not why it is needed, but how it can be done.
In this article, we will talk about how to see the number of words and characters in the text in Word, and before proceeding to the topic, check out what exactly the program from the Microsoft Office package counts in the document:
Pages;
paragraphs;
Strings;
Signs(with and without spaces).
When you enter text in a MS Word document, the program automatically counts the number of pages and words in the document. This data is displayed in the status bar (at the bottom of the document).
- Advice: If the page / word counter is not displayed, right-click on the status bar and select “Number of words” or “Statistics” (in Word versions earlier than 2016).
If you want to see the number of characters, click on the "Number of words" button located on the status bar. The "Statistics" dialog box will show not only the number of words, but also the number of characters in the text, both with and without spaces.
Count the number of words and characters in the selected text fragment
The need to count the number of words and symbols sometimes arises not for the entire text, but for its separate part (fragment) or several such parts. By the way, it is by no means necessary that the fragments of the text in which you need to count the number of words go in order.
1. Select a piece of text, the number of words in which you want to count.
2. The status bar will show the number of words in your selection of text as “Word 7 of 82”, where 7 is the number of words in the selection, and 82 - throughout the text.
- Advice: To find out the number of characters in the selected text fragment, click the button in the status bar indicating the number of words in the text.
If you want to highlight multiple fragments in the text, follow these steps.
1. Select the first fragment, the number of words/characters in which you want to know.
2. Hold down the key "Ctrl" and select the second and all subsequent fragments.
3. The number of words in the selections will be shown in the status bar. To find out the number of characters, click on the pointer button.
Counting the number of words and characters in captions
1. Select the text contained in the label.
2. The status bar will show the number of words inside the selected caption and the number of words in the entire text, similar to how it happens with text fragments (described above).
- Advice: To select multiple labels after selecting the first one, hold down the key "Ctrl" and select the next ones. Release the key.
To find out the number of characters in the selected inscription or inscriptions, click the statistics button in the status bar.
Count words/characters in text along with footnotes
We have already written about what footnotes are, why they are needed, how to add them to a document and remove them, if necessary. If your document also contains footnotes and the number of words / characters in them also needs to be taken into account, follow these steps:
1. Select the text or text fragment with footnotes, words/characters in which you want to count.
2. Go to the tab “Review”, and in the group "Spelling" click on the button "Statistics".
3. In the window that appears in front of you, check the box next to the item “Take into account inscriptions and footnotes”.
Adding word count information to a document
Perhaps, in addition to the usual count of the number of words and characters in a document, you need to add this information to the MS Word file you are working with. To do this is quite simple.
1. Click on the place in the document where you want to place information about the number of words in the text.
2. Go to the tab "Insert" and click on the button “Express Blocks” located in the group "Text".
3. In the menu that appears, select the item "Field".
4. Section “Field names” select item "NumWords", then press the button "OK".
By the way, in exactly the same way you can add the number of pages, if necessary.
Note: In our case, the number of words indicated directly in the document field differs from what is indicated in the status bar. The reason for this discrepancy lies in the fact that the text of the footnote in the text is below the specified place, which means it is not taken into account, and the word in the inscription is also not taken into account.
We will end here, because now you know how to count the number of words, characters and characters in Word. We wish you success in further study such a useful and functional text editor.
Good afternoon! In this short lesson, I will tell you how easy it is to count the number of characters in a text using the Microsoft Word 2010 text editor. Almost anyone can be puzzled by this question. For example, you are a copywriter and you were told to write an article of 3000 characters. Or in class of English language the teacher asked to find and translate a text with a size of 2500 characters.
How to make a calculation? Manually? If there were no computers, you would have to count the signs yourself. But in the yard of the 21st century, and almost everyone has a personal computer, which was created to help a person make various calculations.
Count the signs we will be using MS Word.
Step 1. Create new document and copy the text there. Go to the tab Peer review and click on the button ABC (123). This is the statistics button.
Step 2. The following window will open with the Statistics document. In this window, we are most interested in the number of characters (characters) in this case there are 615 without spaces and 727 with spaces.
Information about the number of pages, words, paragraphs and lines will also be displayed.
As you can see, a very handy feature that will save you time. Enjoy!
It, of course, implies an electronic version of the informational text. Regularly working with texts, you need to know how to count the number of characters in Word. Even though free Internet access allows anyone to download various software applications, including products that specialize solely in counting the number of characters typed, they are of no practical use. Being in the Word text editor, you can find out everything about the question of interest in just a few seconds.
To date, the most simple, affordable and very popular method that allows you to see the number of characters is the multifunctional toolkit of the notorious software product from Microsoft.
Find out the number of characters in the entire document
To find out the number of characters in the Word, the user will need at least the installed Microsoft Word software application (the program version does not matter) and the text itself - the information that was printed or copied from the open spaces world wide web into a blank text editor document.
If all the above conditions are met, the need to count the number of characters in the Word remains a mere formality.
Not mandatory condition, which determines the place where the cursor should be when the user needs to use the "Statistics" command. It is this element of the multifunctional toolkit that helps to count the used characters and words.
Location of the "Statistics" parameter
Version 2007
There is no need to select the information block located directly in the Word document when the user is faced with the task of counting the number of characters in the entire text.
In Word, you should pay attention to the bottom line, which has more famous name, like a status bar. Among the options located on the left side, the second button in a row will be the “Number of words”. By clicking on this command on the screen, a specialized information window will immediately appear, which will display not only the number of characters used in the article, excluding spaces, but also with them.
Such a tool is especially important for people who, for example, write articles to order. For example, if a person is asked to write a short message, the text of which should be at least 1500 characters, without further specifying whether spaces should be counted or not, by default, in most cases, all spaces should be included in the number.
There are times when, after pre-installing the Word editor, the corresponding function is disabled in it, in order to activate it, you can click the mouse directly on the status bar on any space clear of commands, after which a dialog box will appear on the screen to help configure this tool. The user must simply check the box next to the "Number of Words" command.
Version 2010
Version 2003
Among other commands located in the central menu of the software application is the category "Service". With this parameter, you can find out the number of characters used in open document. You just need to go to the "Statistics" subsection. It is worth noting that the parameter used helps to determine the knowledge of not only the number of characters, but also pages, words and characters. The user will see a number on the screen without tedious calculation