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.

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 ...

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 ...

Understand your document's building blocks.

Want a simple way to count characters, words, and paragraphs in any Mac program? Mac OS X Hints shares an Automator script that adds a right-click option to selected text so you can get a word count ...