<![CDATA[Counting Characters]]>Is there a way to count characters? I’ve written some text that I want to copy and paste into a text box in a “contact us” page but when I try to submit, it says I’m limited to 1000 words. I’d like to be able to split up my text into <1k-character blocks so I can submit them separately, and I’d rather not use trial and error. So I’d like to be able to see how big each block is in notepad++. It seems like there ought to be a setting for this but I don’t see it.

Please help!

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/15388/counting-charactersRSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 03:43:15 GMTSat, 10 Mar 2018 04:37:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Counting Characters on Sun, 11 Mar 2018 09:35:50 GMT]]>Notepad-plus-plus can do better. Check the View menu - Summary.
This is the report about my test file:
“Summary
Characters (without blanks): 210
Words: 10
Lines: 10
Current document length: 228
9 selected characters (9 bytes) in 2 ranqes”

The last line is displayed because I had two selected blocks at the time I wanted the ‘Summary’.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/30815https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/30815Sun, 11 Mar 2018 09:35:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Counting Characters on Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:38:41 GMT]]>Wow. I didn’t even notice the status bar. Thanks for pointing it out!

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/30808https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/30808Sat, 10 Mar 2018 12:38:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Counting Characters on Sat, 10 Mar 2018 04:50:52 GMT]]>See Sel: <number> | <number> in status bar for the number of selected characters and lines resp.

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