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His main writing topics include iPhones, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Android, and Photoshop, but he has also written about many other tech topics as well. Matthew Burleigh has been writing tech tutorials since As I work on my document, I can keep an eye on my word count on the status bar, down in the lower left corner of the Word window. I click in my document where I want the word count to appear. The wikiHow Tech Team also followed the article’s instructions and verified that they work. The statistics that appear in this area and in the Advanced Properties are for the entire document, not the selected text.
 
 

How to View Word Count in Microsoft Word (4 Ways)

 
Step 3: Click the Word Count button in the Proofing section of the ribbon. Step 4: Find the document word count to the right of “Words” on this pop-up menu. In the picture below my document has words.