# Counting Words

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words; counting in text
number of words
documents; number of words/characters
text; number of words/characters
characters; counting
number of characters
counting words
word counts
MW deleted "character counts"
Counting Words
- If you want to count only some text of your document, select the text.
- Choose Tools - Word Count.
How does %PRODUCTNAME count words?
In general, every string of characters between two spaces is a word. Tabs, line breaks, and paragraph breaks are word limits, too.
Words with dashes or always visible hyphens, as in plug-in, add-on, user/config, are counted as one word each.
The words can be a mix of letters, numbers, and special characters. So the following text counts as four words: abc123 1.23 "$" http://www.example.com.
To get some more statistics about the document, choose File - Properties - Statistics.
File - Properties - Statistics