How To Check Word Count On Word Online

In Word Online, you can get the number of words typed into the documents easily. In this tutorial, we will teach you how to see word count in Word online. We will also look at how to check word count in Word mobile.

How To Check Word Count On Word Online

There are two ways to view the word count in an online Word document. This section takes you through both the methods and the steps to follow.

Checking word count using the Review Tab

• Login to Office online and go to Word online. You can also log in to One Drive and access the document you want to edit.
• Start typing in content. If you already have content, Word updates the word count automatically.

• Click on Review in the top ribbon of the document.
• From the options available, click on and select Word Count.
• From the drop-down menu, click on Word Count.
• You will now have a popup menu

• The popup menu will show all information about the word count, the time it will take to read the content, the number of characters and paragraphs as well as the readability score.
• After reviewing the information, click on OK to close the menu.

If you want to view the word count at the bottom of the screen, here are the following steps.

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The word count is in the bottom ribbon in Word online

• Open the document you would like to edit. This can be done by logging in to the Office online website and signing in using your login credentials.

• Click on Review in the top ribbon of the document
• From the options available, click on Word Count. You will have a drop-down menu.
• Tick the box next to Show word count.
• You can click inside the document to close the dropdown menu
• As you type, the word count will run.

The Word count indicator is located in the bottom ribbon near the page number. You can click on it for more information.

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How to view word count in Word for Windows?

For Windows systems, you can follow these steps to view the word count of a particular document.

• Login to Office Online or One Drive and download the document you want to work on.
• Double-click on the document to open it
• Click on Review in the top ribbon
• From the options available, click and select word count
• Here, you can see the number of words in the document.

An easier way to have an overview of the number of words in the document is by looking at the bottom ribbon. To the extreme left, you will see a word count indicator. You can click on it for more information on the number of characters with or without space.

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How to view word count in Word Mac?

When working on the desktop version of Word online, here are the steps to view the word count.

• Login to Office online and download the document you want to work on.
• You can also access the document from the OneDrive application for Mac.
• Once you have the document, double-click to open it.

• Click on the Review tab in the top ribbon of the document.
• From the various options available, click and select the word count symbol.

From here, you can have an overview of the number of words in the document, the number of characters with or without space, as well as the number of lines and paragraphs in the document.

The word count in Word for Mac is also available in the bottom ribbon of the document. From here, you can get a quick overview of the number of words.

If you are looking for more information, like the number of characters with or without space, you can click on the Word count. The popup window will have all the necessary information.

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Does word Online include footnotes in word count?

Word online does not include footnotes and end notes in the word count. If you need to add it to the count, you will need to follow these steps.

• Download the document you would like to work with
• Open the document and click on the Review tab in the top ribbon
• From the options available, click on and select Word count
• You will have a popup menu with details on the number of words and characters in the document.
• You will see an option: ‘Include footnotes and endnotes’. Click on the box next to it
• A blue tick will appear.
• Click on OK

By checking the box next to Include footnotes and end notes, you will see that the characters in them will be included in the word count. Uncheck the box if you would like to exclude these from the word count.

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How to view word count in Word for android?

Here are the steps you can follow when viewing the word count in Word for Android.

• Download the Word application for Android and login to your office online account.
• You will now have access to all the files created and stored on the drive
• Open the document you would like to edit. Tap on the editing icon to enable editing.
• Tap on the editing menu option on the top to open the menu
• The home menu will have an arrow next to it. Tap on the arrow for more options
• From the menu, select review. Scroll down till you find the word count option.
• Tap on it to get an overview of the number of words in the document.

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How to view word count in Word for iOS?

Here are the steps you can follow to view the word count of documents in Word for iOS.

• Access the office online or one drive from the browser or download the application from the store.
• You could also download the iOS Word application and log in to your office online account to access the documents.
• Tap on the document you would like to edit.
• Enable editing by tapping on the editing icon.
• Open the editing menu. You will see Home at the bottom of your screen.
• Tap on the arrow next to home for a menu, then select Review from the menu.
• Scroll down till you find the word count option.
• Tap on it to get an overview of the number of words in the document.

In conclusion

This article showed you how to check the word count in Word online. It also taught you how to check the word count and the number of characters with and without space on Mac and Windows systems. Finally, it took you through the process on iOS and Android devices.

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