Q. In Excel, is it possible to count the number of words in a cell? A. Because there is a space character between each word, you can count the words simply by counting the number of spaces between ...

• A Nation puzzle solver’s blog where you can ask for and offer hints.] One of the things that crossword constructors often ponder is what’s called “word count”—the total number of words, across or ...

An organization called Global Language Monitor estimates there are more than 900,000 words in the English language, and more are being added every day. Alex Chadwick talks with Paul Payack, president ...

More often than not, Americans and the world look to American presidents for their words. Whether a president’s words bring comfort, understanding, clarity, resolve or commitment, it is all about the ...

Ah, word counts, every writer's best frenemy. They're like Mondays — you can love or loathe 'em, but there's no escaping them. On some days, you might find yourself desperately stretching your ...

One of Microsoft Word’s more useful features is a live word count (shown in the status bar at the bottom of the window). When you’re editing a document, this word count shows you exactly where you are ...

Come back with me now to the classroom, to that inevitable September day when the teacher would gaze benignly at the class and casually issue the edict that had been anticipated with fear and loathing ...

We are well into the period of counting the sfirah, as it is called, short for sfirat ha’omer, “counting the omer.” Omer means “sheaf,” a bundle of stalks of grain, in this case the wheat that is ...

One of the most frustrating things about Google Docs is having to manually access the menu every time you need to check if you've finally hit that essay's elusive word count. The tech giant is finally ...

To help readers follow the instructions in this article, we used two different typefaces: Boldface type is used to identify the names of icons, agendas and URLs. Sans serif type shows commands and ...