Usually, professionals use Microsoft Excel to record expenses, income, plan budgets, and present their fiscal outcomes, but translators and editors often face the need to count text. Would it surprise you to learn that to сount text in Excel is not an easy task? But since you are reading this post, you have already face Excel word count challenges.
The software doesn’t have a magic button to click on and view all character and word count statistics. You need particular formulas, just like for any other calculations in Excel. This post will show you two ways to count words in Excel and offer you an alternative way to count text in the document body, cell comments, text boxes, shapes, header, and footer.