---
title: "Count anything in your open Word document"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/30/count-anything-in-your-open-word-document.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/30/count-anything-in-your-open-word-document.html"
published: "2003-07-30T18:05:00"
updated: "2003-07-30T18:05:00"
tags: ["Off Topic", "Tips & Tricks"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I'm using the Word 2003 beta, so I'm not sure if this applies to older versions. Ever wanted to know how many words, lines, paragraphs or even characters you have in your open Word document? Easy. Select…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Count anything in your open Word document

By Roy Osherove July 30, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic), [Tips & Tricks](https://osherove.com/blog/category/tips-tricks)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 30, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

_I'm using the Word 2003 beta, so I'm not sure if this applies to older versions._

Ever wanted to know how many words, lines, paragraphs or even characters you have in your open Word document? Easy.

Select _**View->Toolbars->Word Count**_ and you'll get a cool little toolbar to help you!

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

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- Aug 7, 2003

    ### [Short and sweet - I'm back](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/8/7/short-and-sweet-im-back.html)

- Jul 30, 2003

    ### [Out on vacation](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/30/out-on-vacation.html)

- Jul 29, 2003

    ### [As years go by](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/29/as-years-go-by.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/