If you have a paid subscription of Microsoft Office on your system, then you can use the same for counting words in Notepad. The reason is that Microsoft Word has an in-built word counter. All you ...

TextEdit is a nice, lightweight text editor, but in at least one sense it’s too lightweight: It doesn’t have a word-count feature. MacOSXHints.com reader mprussel figured out a solution: An ...

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 ...

When you’re putting together any document, it’s always a good idea to keep an eye on your word count. In school, you’re typically given a word limit for papers and presentations. When writing ...