Word and character count

- [Instructor] There are lots of situations…where it's important to know exactly how many words…are in a document.…Just ask freelance writers who are paid by the word…or students who have a specific requirement…for research papers.…First, I want you to take a look down…at the bottom of the word window…where you can see the word count.…I can see that I have 14 pages and 2,117 words…in this document.…Okay, so that's it, end of topic, right?…Well, for some people, it is, and that's fine,…but check this out.…

I can click on that button for the word count…and it opens up this panel with some extra information.…I can see the page count, word count, character count,…with spaces, without spaces, really useful stuff.…And when I'm finished, I can just close this window again.…Now let's think about something here.…This document has 2,117 words.…What if I needed to get that down under 2,000 words?…How much do I need to cut out?…Well, it's kind of hard to visualize how much text…is in 117 words.…

Well, take a look at this.…I'm going to just select this paragraph here,…