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Depending on individual work or study needs, when crafting Word documents, you may desire to check the total characters, words, lines, and pages. However, you might be unfamiliar with how to access this information.
This article guides you on how to count the total characters, lines, and pages in Word 2003, 2007, 2010, and 2013 versions.
For Word 2003:
To discover the character count, line count, and page count of a text file, open the desired document, and on the toolbar, select Tools -> Word Count.
Within the Word Count dialog box:
- Pages: Total number of pages in the document.
- Words: Total number of words in the document.
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- Character count (including spaces): Total number of characters including spaces.
- Paragraphs: Total number of paragraphs in the document.
- Lines: Total number of lines in the document.
For Word 2007, 2010, 2013:
Open the Word file you wish to analyze for character, line, and page count. Then, double-click on the text Words at the bottom left of the Word interface.
A Word Count dialog box will appear, featuring:
- Pages: Total number of pages in the document.
- Word Count: Total number of words in the document.
- Character count (excluding spaces): Total number of characters without including spaces.
- Character count (including spaces): Total number of characters including spaces.
- Paragraphs: Total number of paragraphs in the document.
- Lines: Total number of lines in the document.
The above article guides you on how to check character count, line count, word count, and page count in Word documents across various versions. You can now quickly tally character, line, and page numbers. Best of luck to all of you!
