So you can count characters and words in OpenOffice
- First, open the OpenOffice document.
- If you only want to count the words and characters of a certain section, you need to select this now.
- Then click on the tab "Extras".
- Then select "word count".
- Now, you can get the number of words and characters for the entire document and, where applicable, for the highlighted area.

OpenOffice: word count
Also in Word you can easily word, and character count - how, exactly, we will show here.
