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 important ...

Everyone knows what a hyphen is. It’s the graphic character to the right of the 0 on your keyboard that connects two words or indicates that a word is wrapped to the next line at the right margin.

When you open a Microsoft Word document, the page appears blank, offering you what seems like an endless array of options. What may not be so obvious is that Word's made a lot of choices for you ...

You can get a character count in a Word document by selecting the "Review" tab and clicking "Word Count." You can find both the number of characters with spaces and the character count not including ...