How to count characters in Microsoft Word documents? step by step guide

Did you know that in Word Can you count the number of words in the document as you write? This is one of the many interesting functions that this program includes, with the objective of facilitating the work of its users.

Apart from that, it is also possible count the pages, lines, paragraphs and characters that a document has. In this way, you save a lot of work and you can know the length of your texts through a few very simple steps.

To learn how to do it, we explain a step-by-step guide about how to count characters in word documents on Windows computers, macOS and even in its web version.

Steps to count characters in my Word documents

As we explained, with the help of the different Word counters you can know the number of characters that your text has, as well as the number of words, paragraphs, pages and much more.

Pay attention to the steps to follow in each case:

Windows

All the detailed information about how many words, characters, paragraphs and much more has a document of Word You can see it directly in the status bar located at the bottom of the document.

If you want to get data from a particular section you have to:

• Select the area what you want to know
• Click on the status bar.
• A box will open where you will know the number of text charactersnumber of paragraphs, lines among others.

macOS

The procedure in macOS computers It is the same as in Windows, this means that to know the extension of your text, number of characters among other details, you have to click on the status bar located at the end of the document.

In simple steps you have to:

• Tap the status bar where the number of words of your text is indicated.
• The box will open count words with all the specifications you require.
• In case you need to know the information about a particular section, all you have to do is select it and repeat the procedure of opening the Word Count box.

In addition to that, there is another way in macOS to know the number of words you have written. You just have to select the text you want, then go to the menu Tools and click on the function word count.

Web

Finally, it is possible to know this type of data in the web version of word in the same way as in the previous cases, that is, by going to the status bar.

Also, you can turn that feature on or off and all you have to do is go to Edit Document/ Edit in Word for the web. Then you have to select on the word count to turn it on or off, depending on what you want.

Notably count is approximate than what is displayed in the document, because words are not counted in areas where there are text boxes, the text in headers, footers, SmartArt graphics, etc. If you need a exact countyou must click on Open in Word and look at the word count at the bottom of the Word window.

Is there a maximum character limit that I can type in my Word files?

Inside Word there is no maximum character limit that can be included within a document. However, there is a maximum size (weight) of the file that the program will open and it is 512MB. This means that a document with a higher weight cannot be displayed.

For its part, you will find limitations in other areas such as:

• Maximum number of bookmarks: 16,380
• Maximum number of styles: 4,079
• Maximum number of comments: 16,380
• Number of subdocuments in a master document: 255
• Maximum number of fields: 2,147,483,647
• Maximum number of moves: 32,752