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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your message across in a clear and concise manner always helps keep your social media audience interested, but becomes essential on Twitter. When you only have 140 characters in which to fit ...

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 ...

Twitter may have just upped its character limit to 280, but you wouldn't know it just by looking at its tweet composer. As part of the update, which doubled the amount of characters you can cram into ...

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 ...

If you logged into Twitter on Tuesday to rant about the news of the day, from various elections across the United States to the launch of the Xbox One X, you may have noticed some more breathing room ...