Section 6.8. Checking Your Word Count

6.8. Checking Your Word Count

It's often necessary to count your document's words, lines, paragraphs, and pages. Word keeps a running tab of pages and words in the status bar at the document window's lower-right corner (Figure 6-20). To see more details, double-click the status bar to bring up the Word Count box. Addressing gripes from earlier versions of Word, Microsoft has added checkboxes that let you include or exclude text boxes, footnotes, and endnotes from the count.

Figure 6-20. Word keeps track of stats such as pages and word count in the lower-left corner of the window. Double-click this area, or go to Review Proofing Word Count to open the Word Count dialog box where you see stats on characters , lines, and paragraphs.