{"id":3471,"date":"2023-05-02T06:32:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T06:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/how-to-check-your-word-count-in-google-docs"},"modified":"2023-05-02T06:32:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T06:32:43","slug":"how-to-check-your-word-count-in-google-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/how-to-check-your-word-count-in-google-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"How to check your word count in Google Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>.stk-0139f79{background-color:#f5f5f5 !important;border-radius:3px !important;overflow:hidden !important;box-shadow:2px 6px 5px -3px rgba(86,14,93,0.9) !important;border-style:solid !important;border-color:var(&#8211;stk-global-color-56583,#911d9c) !important;border-top-width:2px !important;border-right-width:2px !important;border-bottom-width:2px !important;border-left-width:2px !important}.stk-0139f79:before{background-color:#f5f5f5 !important}.stk-0139f79 .stk-block-text__text{font-size:17px !important;font-weight:normal !important;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&#8221;Segoe UI&#8221;,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&#8221;Apple Color Emoji&#8221;,&#8221;Segoe UI Emoji&#8221;,&#8221;Segoe UI Symbol&#8221; !important}@media screen and (max-width:1023px){.stk-0139f79 .stk-block-text__text{font-size:17px !important}}Quick Answer: The quickest way to check word counts in Google Docs is through the keyboard command: Ctrl+Shift+C for Windows or Command+Shift+C for Mac. If you write for work or school, you probably do quite a bit of it in Google Docs. I mean, why wouldn&#8217;t you? It&#8217;s easy to use, easily accessible, and makes collaboration a breeze. However, if you are doing any writing of that sort, you probably are trying to keep up with your word count, right? Well, you can always just click Tools -&gt; Word Count, but that means taking your fingers off the keyboard, and if you are anything like me, that break in concentration means a 32-minute Instagram break. This article would have been finished at least 15 minutes earlier, but I had to see how to check word count on Google Docs, so you see what I mean. How to check word count in Google Docs You can finally keep that word count reminder on the screen with just a few clicks. Here&#8217;s how to display your word count on Google Docs: When in Google Docs, click Tools Click Word Count Check the box at the bottom that says Display word count while typing Image: KnowTechie That&#8217;s it, that&#8217;s all you have to do. You can also see the word count in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/knowtechie.com\/how-to-check-word-count-google-docs\/\">How to check your word count in Google Docs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.stk-0139f79{background-color:#f5f5f5 !important;border-radius:3px !important;overflow:hidden !important;box-shadow:2px 6px 5px -3px rgba(86,14,93,0.9) !important;border-style:solid !important;border-color:var(&#8211;stk-global-color-56583,#911d9c) !important;border-top-width:2px !important;border-right-width:2px !important;border-bottom-width:2px !important;border-left-width:2px !important}.stk-0139f79:before{background-color:#f5f5f5 !important}.stk-0139f79 .stk-block-text__text{font-size:17px !important;font-weight:normal !important;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,&#8221;Segoe UI&#8221;,Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,&#8221;Apple Color Emoji&#8221;,&#8221;Segoe UI Emoji&#8221;,&#8221;Segoe UI Symbol&#8221; !important}@media screen and (max-width:1023px){.stk-0139f79&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,51,2186,2138,57,18,12,295,2185,638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}