In this short guide, I’ll explain how you can enable the character count feature in Pages. Whether you’re using it on your iPhone, iPad, MacBook, or iMac, this guide covers it all.

Plus, a sneak peeks at more useful Apple Pages features at the end. Let’s get into it.

How to Show Character Counts in Apple Pages — iPhone & iPad

Here’s how you can easily display word count, character count, and paragraphs on your iPhone or iPad step by step:

Step 1: Open the Pages app. Then either create a new document or tap on any existing one.

Step 2: On the top right corner, you’ll see three dots. Tap on it. Then enable the Word Count toggle. Tap Done. (For iPad, there will be a Square Icon instead of three dots)

Step 3: Now, within the document, you’ll see a small words box at the bottom of your page.

To show characters, simply click on the ‘words’ box. You’ll be able to see characters — with or without spaces — plus, the number of paragraphs.

Now, since the ‘words’ box is checked, you’ll only see ‘words’ within the document. If you want to see characters instead of words, simply check characters. And you’ll see something like this:

You can also select the text, and see the word count or character count of the specific section or paragraph.

Fun tip: You can drag, and place that box anywhere on the page.

If you no longer want to see it, simply go back to the menu and disable the word count toggle.

How to Show Character Count in Apple Pages — iMac or MacBook.

It’s almost the same as you’d do on an iPhone or iPad, with a few variations. Here are two ways:

A) – Shortcut

While you’re in the document, press Command + Shift + W to see the word count instantly.

B) Another method

Step 1: From the top bar menu, click on View

Step 2: Move your cursor to Show Word Count, and click on it.

Step 3: Just like on iPhone, you’ll see a box at the bottom of the page, showing the total word count. Click on it to see characters and paragraphs.

If you no longer want to see these details, simply press Command + Shift + W. Or, click on the View at the top bar menu. Then move your cursor to Hide Word Count, and click on it. And you’re done.

What is Pages App & Why It’s Better than Most Apps out there?

Pages is a word processor designed by Apple. With pages, you can create documents, design posters, write books, edit and create resumes, and so much more. It’s more than just a word processor.

You get powerful features that let you maximize your productivity. Here are some of them that make Pages worth the try:

• Share documents with the team, and work together live from Apple devices.
• Jump-start your work with awesome templates: reports, books, letters, CVs, flyers, posters, newsletters, invitation cards, and more.
• Quickly translate the text on-screen just by selecting it.
• Handwrite on screen, and it automatically turns into typed text.
• Play YouTube videos within the documents. All you need to do is to paste the link.
• Record audios, edit them, and play them — all within the document.
• You can open a docx or Word file in Pages, which comes in handy.
• With the new Screen View, you can see everything seamlessly, without changing anything.
• You can convert files into PDFs, Word, or EPUB.

And tons of more insider features.

Pages might not be as feature-enriched as Microsoft Office Word, but that thing exactly makes its use fast, simple, and intuitive. If you don’t have Pages installed on your Apple device now, you can get it for free on the Apple Store.

Wrapping Up

I hope now you’ll be able to check the word count or character count of your important documents in Apple Pages. Let us know if you have any questions. And of course you can also check you character count by copying and pasting your text into the character counter on our home page.

Whether you are making an annual sales report for the management or submitting a school assignment or maybe writing your very first novel, Microsoft Word makes your life easier by providing a ton of features like a user-friendly interface, built-in templates, the ability to easily import and export data, and designing and indexing tools to name a few.

How to find character count in a Word document

When working on a document we usually need to adhere to the strict character and word count limitations, this necessitates that the application being used to create the document must have the feature of displaying this information.

While Microsoft Word displays the current word count of the document text in the bottom left corner of the document, we do not see the total number of characters as readily.

This begs the question of whether Microsoft Word provides the functionality to find out the character count of the text present in the document? The answer is.. Yes! Thankfully Microsoft Word does include the feature of displaying the number of characters, words, pages, and the related details of the document.

And in this article, we will give you a detailed set of instructions on how to use this functionality of Microsoft Word.

How to Find Character Count in a Word document in Desktop version:

The total word count of the text in a Word document is displayed in the lower-left corner of the document by default.

If you click on the word count being displayed, you will get the character count (with and without spaces), the number of pages, and the word count of the document displayed in a pop-up on your screen.

Easy enough right?

Another way you can find the character count of the text in a word document is through the Review option in the menu bar. To use this option, go to the menu bar and click on the Review option.

You’ll see the Word Count option, click on it.

And there you go, the character count and other related information will be displayed on your screen.

Shortcut to find character count in a Word document:

If you are a person who likes to use a keyboard shortcut rather than reaching out for your mouse, fear not, you can use the following shortcut to display the character count of the document.

Ctrl + Shift + G

Please make sure to press all three keys simultaneously. The character count and other related information will be displayed on your screen.

How to Find Character Count of Selected Text in a Word Document

You can also find out the character count of selected text in a document. To do so, please select the text you want to know the character count of and then click on the word count being displayed in the lower-left corner of the document.

The character count and other related information of the selected text will be displayed on your screen.

Similarly to find the character count of a selected text through the menu bar, please select the text and click on the review option in the menu bar.

The character count and other related information of the selected text will pop up on your screen.

How to Pin the Word Count option in Quick Access Bar

To access the word count option quickly and easily, you can also pin it to the quick access bar.

In the menu bar, click the Review option and then Right click Word Count. In the dropdown menu that appears select Add to Quick Access Toolbar.

You will see the word count option has been included in the quick access bar, you can click on it to find the character count of the document.

How to find the character count in Word Mobile App

It can be a little tricky for a new user to find the option of character count of a word document in the Mobile app. But once you know where to look it will be a piece of cake.

To find the character count of a word document make sure you are using the edit mode of the document.

You will find the menu bar on the lower side of your document.

Click on the Home option, there will be a drop-down list.

Please select the Review option.

In the display you will see the Word Count option, please click on it.

And voila! The character count (with and without spaces) and other related information of the document will be displayed on your screen.

That’s all for today folks! We hope that answered all your questions about finding the number of characters in a Microsoft Word document in detail. Hopefully, you liked the article and found it informative.

For more character and word counting options feel free to copy and paste your text into our Character Counter here.

Microsoft Excel was first released in 1985 and has held its position as the market leader ever since, with Excel 2021 being the latest version.

While mostly Excel sheets are used to store and analyze numerical data, sometimes we need to analyze non-numerical data as well. One of the first things we want to know about a text is how long is it? How many characters are there? And so on.

Unfortunately, Microsoft Excel does not have a built-in feature to let you know the total number of characters in the sheet. But where there is a will there is a way. We can find out the number of characters in Microsoft Excel exactly like we do everything else in Microsoft Excel i.e. by using a formula!.

Does that sound daunting? Don’t worry, we are here to help. In this article we will provide you a step-by-step guide on how to find out the character count in excel.

Character Count of a Single Cell in Microsoft Excel

Let’s start simple.

You have some text in a cell and you want to know its character count. One cell in Microsoft Excel can contain up to 32,767 characters. So to find out the number of characters in a cell we will use the following formula:

= LEN(text)

LEN is a function in Microsoft Excel used to count the number of characters in a string. A string is a data type used to represent text, non-numerical value, therefore, the function will count letters, numbers, characters, and all spaces.

This function takes one argument. You can copy the text within double quotes (“”) and it will show you the character count of the text.

=LEN(“Character count”)

To count the number of characters in a text present in another cell you can give the cell number in the argument of this formula and it will show you the number of characters (including spaces) present in the cell.

=LEN(A1)

Find the Character Count of a Range of Cells in Excel

So far so good right?

Now what to do if you need to find the character count of a range of cells? A whole column, row, or maybe a whole sheet?

Well, we use a formula for that as well.

We will use LEN in combination with SUMPRODUCT. SUMPRODUCT is a function that is used to add arrays instead of numbers. So LEN of each cell will be an array which SUMPRODUCT will add for us.

=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(range))

To count the number of characters in a text present in a range of cells, we will give cell range in the argument of this formula.

=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(A1:A3))

This gives us the total number of characters which matches the sum of the individual cell’s character count.

Find the Character Count without spaces in MS Excel:

Sometimes we need to know the character count of our text without the spaces. To get this number we will use the SUBSTITUTE function along with the previously used LEN function.

What does the substitute function do?

On its own a substitute function, as its name suggests, replaces a character or string of characters with another in the range selected. The substitute function takes the following four arguments:

=SUBSTITUTE (text to search, search for, replace with, [occurrence number])

Text to search is the cell you want the function to work on. “search for” is the character you want to replace, “replace with” is the character or string you want the previous argument to be replaced with. “Occurrence number” is an optional argument, used to indicate the number of instances to be replaced.

Now how can we use this function in our formula to get character count without spaces?

=LEN(SUBSTITUTE(Cell,” “,””))

This formula will first omit the blank spaces using the substitute function and then count the characters with the LEN function.

=LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,” “,””))

Now to find the number of characters in a range of cells, we will combine the SUMPRODUCT, SUBSTITUTE, and LEN formulas together:

=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2:A4,” “,””)))

This formula will remove the blank spaces from each cell in the range, count the number of characters, and then treat each cell in the given range as an array. It will then sum these arrays giving us the total number of characters in the given range.

And there you go, now you know how to find the number of characters in excel. Hope you found this article interesting and informational!

Conclusion

Microsoft Excel is a great application that has a lot of options and formulas to give you a character count. If that doesn’t work, or you want another way to count characters feel free to copy and paste your text into the character counter on our home page.

What is Google Sheets?

Google Sheets is a web-based spreadsheet program developed by Google. It allows you store and organize your data – like numbers, dates, names – into an ordered structure based on rows and columns.

If you are working with other people, every change you make on a Google Sheet is automatically and instantly displayed to your teammates. To share a Google Sheet with others you can simply give them the link to the Sheet and they will have access to it (you can choose whether to give them read-only access or if you want them to be able to alter the content of the file). This makes Google Sheets an amazing application for collaborative work.

Google Sheets also provides a wide array of operations and functions to perform with the data stored. One of these functions is called the LEN function. This function will be the focus of our article since it’s the one that allows us to count characters in Google Sheets.

The LEN function

The LEN function allows us to get the length of a string (text). It is a function that only requires one argument.

Considering that our purpose is counting characters in Google Sheets, we can rapidly tell that the LEN function will be vital in our endeavor.

Let’s look at how this function works.

LEN function and its description in Google Sheets

This function has the following structure:

=LEN(text)

“text” is the string whose characters we need to count. This could be a different cell, or an explicit text. For example:

=LEN(“hello”)

The result of this function will be the number 5.

=LEN(A2)

The result of this function will depend on what is inside the A2 cell in our sheet.

If our sheet has the word Welcome inside our A2 cell. Then LEN(A2) will be interpreted as LEN(“Welcome”) and the result of the function will be the number 7.

An important factor to keep in mind when using the LEN function is that, when counting, it will consider every single character. This means it will count every letter, number, space, punctuation mark, etc.

Later in this article we will see how we can avoid counting the spaces in our text.

How to count characters using the LEN function.

We’ve already seen that the LEN function counts the characters inside a text. Now we will review how we can use this to count the characters inside a single cell, and then we will see that this same function can be used to count the characters inside multiple cells.

Counting characters in a single cell

As we have already seen when looking at how the LEN function works, we can name the cell whose characters we want to count inside the () and the LEN function will provide us with the correct number.

For example:

If this is our sheet. Then =LEN(B3) will result in the number 5, since the word Count has five characters.

Counting characters in multiple cells

To be able to count the total of characters inside multiple cells, we will need the aid of another function called SUMPRODUCT().

What we will do is define the range of the cells whose characters we need to count, place that range inside our LEN function, and finally wrap SUMPRODUCT around our LEN function.

Here’s what that looks like:

=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(FirstCell:LastCell))

Let’s look at an example:

If our Google Sheet looks like this:

Then the result of =SUMPRODUCT(LEN(C2:C5)) will be the number 41 (remember: spaces also count as characters).

Counting characters without spaces

We already know how to count the characters in a single cell and how to count the characters in a range of cells. But there’s a possible problem: if you, by mistake, have multiple spaces or extra spaces, these will be counted as additional characters.

How can we make sure we are not counting these repeated or extra spaces? By using the TRIM function.

The TRIM function is a function that will take a text and remove any extra or repeated spaces within it.

If we wrap our LEN function around the TRIM function, we will be able to get a count of all the characters in our range without also counting those extra or repeated spaces.

Here’s what that looks like:

=LEN(TRIM(Cell))

And if we want to do this same process but for multiple cells instead of one, then we only need to place this inside a SUMPRODUCT.

Here’s what that looks like:

=SUMPRODUCT(LEN(TRIM(FirstCell:LastCell)))

Let’s look at an example:

If our Sheet looks like this:

Then the result of = SUMPRODUCT(LEN(TRIM(A1:A5))) will be the number 31.

Conclusion

We hope this answered any questions you had about counting characters in Google Sheets. If you need any additional features or have trouble counting the characters in Google Sheets, feel free to copy and paste your text into the character counter on our home page.

For decades Microsoft Word remained the go-to tool for everyone for any sort of documentation. From students doing their assignments to corporate workers making a sales report to aspiring writers working on their debut novel, Microsoft Word was there to cater to all their needs.

However, as technology advanced, the need for a collaborative writing tool arose. A tool where more than one person can work on a document, simultaneously, no matter the geographical location of the users. And this is where Google Docs found its edge.

Google Docs gives you the freedom of accessing your documents from anywhere in the world. And best of all, it is free! All you need is an internet connection and a Gmail account.

Another major advantage of Google Docs is you can share the document with your peers and they can view, review or edit the document simultaneously, increasing the speed of the process.

How to find the Character Count in Google Docs

A standard feature of MS Word is that it shows the current word count and number of pages of the document in the left corner of the document at all times. This is a handy feature as a lot of times documents need to follow a certain length or word count.

However, Google docs do not give its facility. Or so it seems at the first glance. Actually, If you have found this article it means you are struggling to find the number of characters in your google document.

Fear not, Google Docs does have the option of displaying not only just the number of words but also the number of characters (with and without spaces!) in the document and in this article, we will provide you a step-by-step guide to use this feature in Google Docs.

Finding the Character Count in Google Docs in the Desktop Browser.

If you have your google doc open in front of you, look under the document title in the upper left corner and you will see the menu bar containing options like File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools, Extensions, and Help.

Click on the Tools option.

You will see a dropdown of options. Select Word count.

A popup displaying the number of pages, words and characters in the document will appear.

Shortcut for Character Count in Google docs in Desktop browser.

Further, you can also use the following keyboard shortcut to find the number of characters in Google docs:

Ctrl+Shift+C

If you are a MacBook user please use the following keyboard shortcut:

Command+Shift+C

Please make sure to press all three keys simultaneously. A popup displaying the number of pages, words and characters in the document will appear.

How to Get the Character Count for a Selected Portion of the Text

So what if you want to know the number of characters in only a portion or subsection of your document? Don’t worry, Google Docs provides that option as well.

First of all, in your Google document, select the portion of text you want to know the character count of.

Now again go to the top menu bar, and select the Tools option. In the dropdown select Word count.

A pop-up will appear displaying the number pages, words and characters of selected text out of the total count of the document.

Alternatively, you can find the character count of selected text by using the Keyboard shortcut as well.

In your Document, select the portion of text you want to know the word count of and press the Ctrl+Shift+C keys simultaneously. Mac book users can use Command+Shift+C.

How to pin the Word count of the Google Doc:

If you want to be updated on the current word count of your document in real-time, you can pin the word count on Google Docs as well.

Going through the same steps mentioned above, in the menu bar select the Tools option, then Word count in the dropdown. A popup will appear displaying the word count of the document. Click on the checkbox next to Display word count while typing.

The document will display the word count in the left down corner of the document. The word count will be updated in real-time.

Finding the Character Count in Google Docs Mobile App:

After opening the google document in the app select the More or 3 dots sign in the upper right corner of the document.

Select the Word count option.

The total number of words and characters in the document will be shown on your screen.

We hope you found this article informational and got the answers to all your questions about finding the number of characters in Google Docs.

As always, if you have any difficulty finding the character count in Google Docs, want another option or need additional counting features you can always copy and paste your text into our Character Counter here.

Counting specific characters in a C++ string is a time-consuming task when you do it manually. Well, this article is going to ease your tension by suggesting some of the easiest methods to count specific characters in a C++ string.

Methods To Count Specific Characters In A String Using C++

Interestingly, C++ has various ways to count specific characters in a string. Let’s explore all of them one by one.

Method 1: Using While loop

Here in this method, a while loop is implemented to iterate through all characters of the string and check for the specific character. If the character is found, then increment the counter. The time complexity of this method is O(n), where n is the length of the string.

Method 2: Using For loop

It is similar to the previous method. The only difference is that a For loop is used to iterate through all characters of the string. Plus, it also differentiates between the upper case and lowercase letters. However, the time complexity of this method is also the same as above. It is more readable; that’s why developers use this instead of the While loop.

Method 3: Using Boost Library

It is also a piece of cake because it doesn’t require extra coding. You just need to include the header file and call the function. Moreover, it saves both time and lines of code. For this reason, it is considered the simplest method to solve this problem.

Method 4: Using STL Library

Standard Template Library or STL is a powerful C++ toolkit that comes with an inbuilt function to count characters. Hence, it makes the task extremely simple for coders. However, the inbuilt function is slower than the other methods.

Method 5: Using Bitmasking

It’s the most efficient method to solve this problem. In Bitmasking process, we store the count of all characters using a single integer value. It is also known as the space optimization technique.

Method 6: Using Recursion

It’s an interesting method to count specific characters in a string as it involves a function that calls itself. As a result, the task becomes more fun for coders. But, the time complexity of this method is O(2^n).

What Are Some Applications Where This Might Be Useful?

Besides your’s specific reason, this might be useful in the following cases:

• When working with big data, it might be useful to use these methods to quickly count a character that occurs to get an idea of the distribution.
• Another application might be in data compression, where you need to know how many times a character appears in order to compress the data more efficiently.
• If you are working with a text-based application, such as a text editor or word processor, you might need to use these methods to determine things quickly.

What Potential Problems You Might Encounter When Counting Specific Characters In A String?

Coding is exciting, but there might be some potential problems while counting specific characters in a string. First, if the string is too long, it might take a lot of time to count all the characters. Second, if the string is in a different language, it might be difficult to count the characters accurately. Another issue you may face is if the string contains a lot of punctuation, it might be difficult to count all the characters error-free.

Tips To Consider While Counting Specific Characters In A String In C++

1) Make sure to include the string header file while counting specific characters in a string.

2) If you are using cin to take input from the user, don’t forget to use cin.ignore() after cin>>s;.

3) If you want to count upper case and lower case letters, use the isupper() and islower() function.

4) Use getline() instead of cin>>s if the string contains spaces.

5) Use a break statement inside the loop to exit as soon as the required character is found.

6) If you want to store the count of all characters, use an array of size 26 (for lower case letters) or an array of size 52 (for both upper and lower case letters).

Final Thoughts

Playing around with strings in C++ is always a fascinating task for coders. However, a single error can spoil all the fun.

Unfortunately, most beginners find it challenging when counting specific characters in a string. But nothing to worry about because we tried our best to assist you. You could use any of the methods mentioned above that would definitely help you to count specific characters in a string in C++.

The problem I can run into using the function LENGTH() or any other variations of this function is that this function does not work without a parameter. As a parameter, we can use any one argument, and the argument here will be the name of the column where your characters are located. The type of the character could be CHAR, VARCHAR, INTEGER, DATE, and even ENUM. If we insert two different columns using a comma sign, an error with a wrong parameter occurs.

Step 1. For our test, we will use the following table:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS test(id INT AUTO_INCREMENT, name VARCHAR(50), last_name VARCHAR (50), PRIMARY KEY (id) );

INSERT INTO test1.test (name, last_name) VALUES (‘Georgi’, ‘Facello’), (‘Bezalel’, ‘Simmel’), (‘Parto’, ‘Bamford’), (‘Chirstian’, ‘Koblick’), (‘Kyoichi’, ‘Maliniak’) ;

— General view of the table: SELECT * FROM test;

Step 2. Here we can overview the function itself. The following example results in counting the number characters respectively to the cell our function refers to:

— Syntaxis & example:

2.1

SELECT LENGTH(colum_name) FROM table_name;

SELECT id, name, LENGTH(name) FROM test;

— 2.2 The same function could be written in another way:

SELECT id, name, OCTET_LENGTH(name) FROM test;

SELECT id, name, CHAR_LENGTH(name) FROM test;

SELECT id, name, CHARACTER_LENGTH(name) FROM test;

— 2.3 Here, we also can find a function that returns the number of bits in the referred cell:

SELECT id, name, BIT_LENGTH(name) FROM test;

Also, we can use LENGTH() in WHERE statement to find a specific number of characters SELECT colum_name1, colum_name2, … FROM table_name WHERE LENGTH(colum_name) >=/<=/=/!= … ;

SELECT id, name, LENGTH(name) FROM test WHERE LENGTH(name) = 6;

— 2.4 In order to count the number of characters in multiple rows, we can use a CONCAT function:

CONCAT(colum_name1, colum_name2) – Here, we need to insert a couple of columns that we are interested in counting characters.

SELECT LENGTH(CONCAT(colum_name1, colum_name2)) FROM table_name;

SELECT id, CONCAT(name,last_name), LENGTH(CONCAT(name,last_name)) FROM test;

— 2.5 We can count the maximum number of symbols in a column using the ORDER BY statement:

SELECT LENGTH(colum_name) FROM table_name ORDER BY LENGTH(colum_name) DESC(max-min)/ASC(min-max) LIMIT … /without LIMIT;

SELECT id, name, LENGTH(name)

FROM test

ORDER BY LENGTH(name) DESC;

/* without LIMIT

— 2.6 The following example with the LIMIT function represents the result of the search for the row with the lowest number of characters:

*/ SELECT id, name, LENGTH(name) FROM test ORDER BY LENGTH(name) DESC LIMIT 1;

/* with LIMIT

— 2.7 Also, we can do that with an aggregate function to find MAX/MIN(column_name) among the whole table:

SELECT MAX/MIN(LENGTH(colum_name)) FROM table_name;

SELECT MAX(LENGTH(name)) FROM test;

— 2.8 Using a COUNT statement, we can find the total number of rows in our table:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table_name;

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM test;

— 2.9 It also could be rewritten with the DISTINCT statement, which selects all unique rows in our column:

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT colum_name) FROM table_name;

SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT name) FROM test;

— 2.10 If we need to count all words in a row, we need to use the following code. It represents the subtraction of the length of a term by replacing an order of the comments and adding “1”. The REPLACE() function returns all text in substring within a new substring.

–General syntaxis:

SELECT COUNT(LENGTH(column_name) – LENGTH(REPLACE(column_name, ”,”))+1) FROM table_name;

SELECT id, (LENGTH(name) – LENGTH(REPLACE(name, ”,”))+1) FROM test;

Conclusion

We hope you enjoyed our tutorial about how to count characters using SQL. Remember, if you ever need another way to count characters you are always welcome to copy and paste your text into the character counter on our home page.