
Luckily both of these applications include a word count tool that will show this information with just a couple of clicks. It’s impractical to count words manually in most word processors like Microsoft Word or Google Docs.

Now, if you consider the difficulty in counting the number of words, imagine if you needed to count the number of characters instead.

The Microsoft Word character count and word count tool has been around for several versions of the Word application and provides a lot of helpful information.

Have you ever tried to find the number of words in a document by performing a manual word count? Not only is this frustrating and prone to error, but there is a faster way to see how many words you have written.
