In journalism, both copywriting and rewriting, texts of a certain volume are often required, measured in the number of characters. If you work with texts and regularly receive orders for new articles, it will probably be useful for you to learn about several simple methods that allow you to very quickly count the number of characters in the text, both with and without spaces.
Instructions
Step 1
The easiest way to count the number of characters is in Microsoft Word, which most authors use to create their texts. Open the "Service" section in the main menu, and then select the "Statistics" option.
Step 2
If you are using the latest version of MS Office 2007, select the "Review" tab in the top menu, and then click the "Statistics" button. A window will open in which you will see the number of pages, words and characters with and without spaces, paragraphs and lines in the document or in the selection.
Step 3
Word gives you minimal information about the content of the text, so if you want more varied results and more in-depth analysis, use special online services.
One of the most functional services is semantic text analysis on the Advego website. Paste the excerpt copied from the text editor into the empty service window, and then click the "Check" button.
Step 4
Wait for the results to appear and review them. The service will provide you with comprehensive information about your text - you will see the number of characters with spaces, the number of characters without spaces, the number of common words, separately - unique words and significant words, which is important for search engine optimization of a site where your text will be used.
Step 5
Also, with the help of semantic analysis on Advego, you can find out what is the percentage of "water" in your text, whether there are grammatical errors in it, whether the article suffers from an excessive number of academic terms, and in addition, you can check the text for uniqueness and determine which words occur most frequently in your text.
Step 6
To count characters and words, you can use the Site-Projects service - if you use this site, you can sort the words and characters often found in the text alphabetically.
Step 7
Another convenient service is Znakochitalka. It works quickly and smoothly, and with the help of this service you can easily find out all the details about your document, as well as be able to configure it to ignore PHP and HTML codes when calculating.
