Word already displays the number of words in a document in its status bar for all versions. This number appears at the bottom, second to the right after the number of pages in the document. If you ...

As one would expect, Microsoft Word includes a feature to count the words in a document; it also includes the ability to count the characters. Knowing the character count of a document is ...

You can display a document’s character count in the header by inserting a calculating field into the Word header as follows: Double-click the header area to access the header, press Ctrl+F9 to insert ...

I just got Office 2008, and besides a few crashes in Word it is quite a lot better than 2004 (although most of that might have been Rosetta). Before I never used Word unless I absolutely had to ...