Whatever you're writing — an essay, a book, a news article — knowing your word count is vital. Luckily, Microsoft Word gives three quick ways to check your word count. Here's how to use each one.

As you write in Microsoft Word, your word count appears in the status bar at the bottom. This number increases and decreases in real-time to reflect the current amount of content you’ve written.

Every word processing tool has a word count feature. We just have to use it to know the count. Microsoft Word has it. There is a way we can know the word count in PowerPoint presentations too.

Otherwise, Word executes the If statement’s Else. First, Word sets the intCount variable to 0—this is an inner count that keeps up with the number of occurrences.

Word already displays the number of words in a document in its status bar for all versions. This number appears at the bottom, second to the right after the number of pages in the document. If you ...

Microsoft Word displays the word count in the status bar at the bottom left, but you can also have it permanently show the character count as well. Here's how.