Our guide below will show you how to find the character counter for your Word 2010 document so that you can see the number of characters that exist in that document.
How to Show the Character Count in Word 2010
The steps in this article will assume that you are looking for the character count for a document that is open in Microsoft Word 2010. This will be accomplished by clicking the word count button in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. If you do not see the word count button, then you can right-click the status bar, then check the Word Count option, as in the image below.
The character count is shown with two values – one number is for characters including spaces, and one number is for characters without spaces. If you would like the Word 2010 character counter to include characters in your text boxes, footnotes, and endnotes, then click the box to the left of that option at the bottom of the pop-up window.
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