Create an exact word count in TextEdit. Open Automator. (It sits loose in Applications, or you can find it with Spotlight.) It will ask you to choose a type for your document; click Service, then ...

How to check word count in Google Docs. To check word count on a computer, make sure you have your file open. Select "Tools" in the top bar and choose "Word Count" in the dropdown menu.

Word count serves as one way to measure the length of a document. For example, many professional marketing or product papers are between 2,500 and 6,000 words.

To get the word count of the entire document, click “Tools” in the header menu and then select “Word Count” from the drop-down menu. Alternatively, you can use the Ctrl+Shift+C keyboard ...

Fortunately, Word has two built-in ways to count occurrences of a specific word. If that’s not flexible enough, you can use a Word VBA sub procedure. In this article, I’ll show you both built ...

TextEdit is a nice, lightweight text-editor. But in one sense, it's too light: It doesn't do word counts. One MacOSXHints.com reader has a solution.