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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 ...

If you have a paid subscription of Microsoft Office on your system, then you can use the same for counting words in Notepad. The reason is that Microsoft Word has an in-built word counter. All you ...

You might think you know Google Docs well, but there are a lot of lesser-known but useful features. Not only can you voice dictate to Google Docs and display a real-time word count, you can create ...