First, you will need to place the mouse cursor on the section of the document where you want the word count to appear. After that, click on the “Insert” tab at the top of Microsoft Word, and then ...

If you’re a writer, student, or anyone else constrained by word counts, you’re probably a regular user of Microsoft Word’s handy Word Count feature (which is accessible in the Tools menu). Wouldn’t it ...

TextEdit, the simple text editor program built into macOS (and Mac OS X before it), has many attractive qualities – so much so that this very article is currently being typed into it despite the ...

TextEdit is a nice, lightweight text editor, but in at least one sense it’s too lightweight: It doesn’t have a word-count feature. MacOSXHints.com reader mprussel figured out a solution: An ...