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Online tool to count any number of characters in text. By using of this instrument you can easily find out how many characters are in the text, how many characters are in the text without a space, how many punctuation marks, spaces and paragraphs. You can also remove duplicate lines (if any), remove stop words, remove HTML tags from the text and trim the text to the required number of characters.

Why count and process characters in text?

This tool will be useful for copywriters, rewriters and SEO specialists. You can trim the text and remove stop words for further publication on the customer’s website. Using the HTML tag removal function, you can copy the source text directly from the site, and then simply remove all HTML tags with one click, leaving you with clean and ready-made text for further processing.

What can the character counting tool do?

Our tool is quite easy to use, but very powerful in functionality. Detailed description See below for all functions.

1. Count the number of characters (including characters without space)
2. Counting the number of words in a text
3. Counting the number of commas and periods in text
4. Counting the number of special characters (%$#&*+-@, etc.)
5. Counting the number of digits in text
6. Counting the number of spaces and paragraphs in text
7. Supports unlimited characters*
8. Removing stop words (Russian and English stop words are supported)
9. Removing duplicate lines (if there are two or more identical lines in the text)
10. Removing HTML tags from text (, ... ,
    ...
    , ... and other HTML tags, including classes and identifiers.)
11. Trimming text to a certain number of characters (for example, the text has 5000 characters, enter the value 1500 in the special field and click on the trim button, after which the text will have exactly 1500 characters.)

What special characters are counted?

Below are special characters that may be in your text. When they are detected, you will see their number in a special line.

-\§#!$*%+&"−()`⁄:;<=>?@_{|}~№«»€

What stop words are on the list?

Our list of stop words contains the following words, phrases, letters, etc.:

Russian safe words:

a, big, would, without, more, was, was, were, was, be, in, you, you, after all, all, here, all, all, all, you, along, instead of, out, down, below, inside, around, always, everyone, say, year, where, yes, for, before, come on, give, even, enough, more, him, her, hers, if, there is, yet, same, know, for, here, and, because of, or, to them, to have, their, from, to, how, which, somehow, who, when, except, whether, or, to me, maybe, my, my, can, we, on, our, not, her, no, but, on, forever, over, must, our, him, her, nor, him, them, well, oh, that, from, one, about, however, he, she, they, it, from, why, very, by, under, after, because, because, almost, with, about, with, your, yourself, say, again, with, that, such, only, that, you, so, also , such, there, those, those, then, that, too, that, only, that, here, you, already, although, y, that, what, something, whose, than, what, so that, whose, whose , whose, this, this, these, this, this, me

English safe words:

about, above, according, across, actually, ad, adj, ae, af, after, i, he, to, of, and, in, is, it, for, that, if, you, this, be, on, with, not, have, are, or, as, from, can, but, by, at, an, will, no, all, la, last, later, latter, lb, lc, least, less, let, let" s, li, was, do, there, my, one, so, sa, same, sb, sc, sd, se, seem, seemed, seeming, seems, seven, seventy, several, sg, sh, she, she" d, she"ll, she"s, was, wasn, wasn"t, we, we"d, we"ll, we"re, we"ve, web, webpage, website, welcome, well, were, weren't, weren"t, wf, what, what"ll, what"s, whatever, when, whence, whenever, where, they, would, any, which, ye, yes, yet, you, you"d, you"ll

The list of stop words is constantly updated. If you want to add any safe words, write to us using the form feedback. We will definitely add new significant stop words to our stop list.

* — the limit on the number of characters inserted and processed at one time is 1,000,000 characters without spaces.

Often computer users, when performing educational tasks or writing custom texts may encounter the need to count characters in the material. You can count the number of characters in a text online, in the Word text editor, or through the Excel spreadsheet editor. Let's look at each of the options in this article.

Table of contents:

How to count the number of characters in text in Word

The Word text editor has a fairly wide range of tools for calculating technical information about a text. Unlike a number of options discussed below, Word can not only show how many characters are in the text, but also report the number of characters excluding spaces, the total number of pages, the number of words, the number of lines and paragraphs. To find out this information, just click on the lower left side Word windows by the number of words, after which the statistics will appear.

It is also worth noting that the Word tool can count the number of characters and words not in the entire document, but only in a fragment. To do this, you need to select a piece of text and also click on statistics.

How to count the number of characters in text in Google Docs

Another popular text editor is Google Docs. Unlike Word, it is free, which attracts users. It also has the necessary tools for counting the number of characters in the text. To use it, click “Tools” - “Statistics” in the top menu.

After this, a window will appear that displays information about the text - the number of pages, words, characters and characters without spaces.

Please note: Unlike Word, counting Google statistics Docs does not provide information about the number of paragraphs and lines.

How to count the number of characters in text online

If you don’t want to use text editors to calculate information about a text, you can turn to one of the online services with similar functionality for help. Let's look at several ways to count the number of characters in text online:

There are many other services that allow you to calculate the number of characters and words online, but they are less functional than the options above.

How to count the number of characters in an Excel cell

If you need to determine how many characters are contained in a particular table cell Microsoft Excel, for this you can use the provided function =LENGTH(), which returns information about the number of characters in the specified cell as a number.

It is worth noting that if there is a formula in the cell to which the specified function is executed, then the result of this function will be information about the number of characters in the result of the formula.

One of the most useful word processing tasks in Excel is to automatically count the number of words or specific words in a line. There are many different ways to solve this problem, but we will look at the simplest one.

Formula for counting the number of words in an Excel cell

How to count the number of words and spaces in Excel cells? In fact, words in a line are separated by a space character. There is 1 space between each word, so there are always one fewer spaces in a text line than words. A simple formula to understand: number of words per line = number of spaces +1. In other words, we need a formula to count the number of spaces in a line and add +1 to the result of its calculation.

To create a formula in Excel to count the number of words, we need to complete 3 steps:

1. Determine the length of the original string including spaces.
2. Determine the length of the source string without spaces.
3. Subtract a string without spaces from the length of a string with spaces.

The above formula contains 3 functions. One of them is the SUBSTITUTE function, and then there are two identical LENGTHs.

First, the LENGTH function checks the length of the text wash while original form in cell A1.

SUBSTITUTE(A2;" ";"")

Placing the SUBSET function as an argument to the LENGTH function allows us to automatically determine the length of the string without spaces.

LENGTH(SUBSTITUTE(A2;" ";""))+1

Note! At this stage you should add +1, because the last word in the text does not have a corresponding space.

Practical applications of the above descriptive formulas are most often found when analyzing large lists of key phrases.



Formula for counting the number of characters in an Excel cell

1. Determining the length original word"Mississippi" = 9.
2. We determine the length of the same word, but without the letter “C” - “Miiiipi” = 6.
3. Subtract the word without the letter “C” from the original word: 9-6=3.

As a result, the formula automatically counted the number of letters “C” in all words:

Note. The formula uses the CAPITAL function to capitalize all letters in words because the SUBSTITUTE function is case sensitive. And we are looking for the capital letter “C” in each word of the city name.

If you need to count the number of characters in cells, use the LEN function - which counts letters, numbers, characters and all spaces. For example, the length of "It's 98 degrees today, so I'll go swimming" (excluding the quotes) is 42 characters - 31 letters, 2 numbers, 8 spaces, a comma and 2 apostrophes.

To use the function, enter = LENGTH (cell) in the formula bar, press Enter on your keyboard.

Multiple cells: To apply the same formula to multiple cells, enter the formula in the first cell and then drag the fill handle down (or across) the range of cells.

To get the total number of characters in multiple cells is to use the sum functions together with LENGTH. In this example, the LEN function counts the number of characters in each cell and the sum function adds the counters:

= SUM ((LEN function ( cell1 ), function LEN ( cell2 ), (function LEN ( cell3 )) )) .

Try to practice

Below are some examples of how the LENGTH function works.

Copy the table below and paste it into cell A1 in your Excel worksheet. Drag the formula from cell B2 to B4 to see the length of the text in all cells in column A.

Counting characters in one cell

Click cell B2.

Enter formula =LENGTH(a2).

The formula counts the characters in cell A2, 27 "Total", which contains all the spaces and the period at the end of the sentence.

Note: LEN counts spaces after the last character.

Character counting V several cells

Click cell B2.

Press Ctrl+C to copy cell B2, and then select cells B3 and B4 and press Ctrl+V to paste the formula into cells B3:B4.

This formula will be copied to cells B3 and B4, and the function will count the characters in each cell (20 27 and 45).

Counting the total number of characters

In the example book, click cell B6.

Enter a formula in the cell =SUM(LENGTH(A2),LENGTH(A3),LENGTH(A4)) and press ENTER.

This way the number of characters in each of the three cells is counted and summed up in (92).

The tool counts the number of characters and characters in the text. Character counting can be done both in plain text and with HTML tags. The results display the number of characters with spaces, without spaces, and the number of words. The tool also contains a very convenient text cost calculation feature.

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• Characters
  • Total characters:
  • Characters without spaces (zbp):
  • Word count:
  • Punctuation marks:
• Additional properties
  • Original text size:
  • Number of spaces:
  • Extra spaces:
  • Line translations:
• Content cost calculation
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Below are descriptions of all the fields and values ​​that are used when counting characters and characters in text. It is also indicated how each such value is calculated.

Total characters

All characters in the text are counted. Everything is taken into account and counted - letters, numbers, punctuation marks, as well as spaces. The total number of characters in the text is displayed.

Number of characters without spaces (zbp)

All characters and characters in the text are counted, with the exception of spaces. All spaces are excluded from the calculation and are not counted in this result. This value very often used when calculating or indicating the cost of articles per 1000 characters without spaces (ZBP).

Word count

All found words in the text are counted and displayed.

Punctuation marks

Punctuation marks are considered separately. The counting is based on the most common punctuation marks. , : ; ! ? ... , slash \ | / ⁄ , brackets () () ⟨⟩, dash - ‒ – - ―, quotation marks " " ` „ “ “ “ “ “ “ ‘ ’ .

Below is a description of all the additional properties of the text, such as the original text size, how many spaces there are in the text, and extra spaces. It is described how all these values ​​are calculated.

Original text size

The raw text size contains the length of the raw text, which may contain service characters such as tab, linefeed, carriage return, and other characters that should not be counted in the text count. Web browsers do not display such symbols and are not visible on the site page.

Number of spaces

Counts all spaces in the text, sums up the number of all spaces found and the resulting value is displayed in this field.

Extra spaces

Extra spaces are double spaces one after the other, the number of which can be two or more. All such spaces are considered unnecessary and should not be present in the text. Extra spaces also include spaces that appear before or after a paragraph, as well as on blank lines.

Count HTML tags

Additional option. By default, if the text contains HTML tags, they are ignored and not taken into account when counting the text, thus resulting in a character count of pure text, without HTML tags. This option is very useful, use it if you need to count text, including html markup.

Content cost calculation

This function will be interesting and useful to many journalists, copywriters and rewriters who write articles and texts to order. This function allows you to calculate the cost of text, indicate the cost per 1000 characters and enter the currency. The data is automatically calculated and immediately displayed, which allows you to instantly see the total cost of the entire text or article.

Do punctuation marks count when counting characters?

Yes, they count. Periods, commas, dashes, exclamation marks, question marks and other marks are counted when counting characters in the text. Suppose you need to add a site to the directory by coming up with a title that is only 80 characters long, and if this title contains punctuation marks, they will also be counted as characters. Space is also a punctuation mark and is also counted.

Copywriters in most cases indicate the cost of text per number of characters without spaces (ZBP) in favor of the customer, but all other characters are counted and taken into account. The remaining characters are not excluded because their number has little effect on the final cost of the text.