• A Nation puzzle solver’s blog where you can ask for and offer hints.] One of the things that crossword constructors often ponder is what’s called “word count”—the total number of words, across or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. In Excel, is it possible to count the number of words in a cell? A. Because there is a space character between each word, you can count the words simply by counting the number of spaces between ...

For some, writing comes easy. It may feel like mere seconds for words to start flying off the page as the final word count nears thousands. For others, it may take several painstaking hours to muster ...

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 ...

Ah, word counts, every writer's best frenemy. They're like Mondays — you can love or loathe 'em, but there's no escaping them. On some days, you might find yourself desperately stretching your ...