While Excel was designed for numbers, it also involves text in cells. So, for example, if you want to transfer your data and limit the characters for each cell, you may want to know how to count ...

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 ...

You can turn on a character count on your iPhone's Messages app with a setting change, so that your phone will tell you how long your SMS messages are as you type. To turn on this setting, you'll just ...

Character count in text can be an important number, especially when dealing with design and formatting for newsletters or product copy. It may be especially important to keep an eye on character count ...

Update (9/19): It's official! Twitter has just announced that the new character limit change is rolling out now: [twitter url="https://twitter.com/twitter/status ...

If you need to count how many of each character is included in a file or phrase, there are some handy commands you can string together to accomplish this along with scripts and aliases that can make ...