Word counting freeware

I am looking for a way to easily count words in a text file.

Other features welcome, but basically that's what I am looking for.

I thought that maybe someone here would know, although professional copywriters might use more sophisticated means...

 

Have you looked in properties? The word count should be there.

 

You can go to http://www.spellcheck.net/ and copy and paste your text into the main area there ... hit ENTER after you paste and it will show the word count.

Hope that helps.

 

If you have MS Word you can use it to open the text file and then use the word count function.

 

First of all, thanks for your help!

I don't have Word, but I'll check in my Word Processors for the function, I didn't even think it was included.

I might use that online tool if I can't find anything in my pc or to download.

Thank you.

If there are any more ideas, please keep 'em coming!

 

Any more ideas? I could make a script that you paste all your text and it will give wordcount? PM me if you want.

 

You could try this too..
http://photomatt.net/tools/word-count/:)

 

I downloaded a few. I'll give them a try and let you know.

Thanks for all the help!

And...good luck to Liverpool!

 

I use NoteTab Light (www.notetab.com) as my text editor, which is freeware and counts words in either the entire document or a selection by going to Tools > Text Statistics.

 

If you have php, you could always read the file into a string and use this function:

str_word_count();

of course, that's probably not what you need for local writing.

 

Notepad++ has this too:

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/

It's very nice and simple text and code editor.

 

simply save the text file on any linux box and then do "wc textfile.txt"

wc command is a simple Word Counter and it counts the characters, words and lines in a text file.

 

Download OpenOffice (it's free) and after copying/pasting the text file to the Writer program, with 2 simple clicks (tools -> word count) you'll have information about the number of words and characters.

http://www.openoffice.org/

 

There is a couple of small, stand-alone applications.

One freeware, the other commercial, similar name

Textally
http://www.nch.com.au/counter/index.html

Text Tally
http://www.harmonyhollow.net/ttally.shtml

Code (markup):

 

When writing 95 characters AdWords ad I had to do this. And this is very painstaking job.

I use MS Word. It has wordcount feature and you can also open it in toolbar.

I think this is the best way.

 

Thanks everybody!

The way I am doing it is through Openoffice.org, but I noticed that most decent word processors have that tool and I also downloaded a few freeware tools from the web.

So I am more than covered thanks to you all!

 

You could always copy and paste the text content into an online word counter -- we added this one for just such purposes.

 

Nice tool, specially when your are doing a research and need to check the lenght of an article or source.

Thanks for share it with us

 

I just copy my text into this text box from this link and hit calaculate words

http://javascriptkit.com/script/script2/countwords.shtml

 

or use microsft word...easiest