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    Gail Gurman
    last edited by Mar 10, 2018, 4:37 AM

    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!

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      MAPJe71
      last edited by Mar 10, 2018, 4:50 AM

      See Sel: <number> | <number> in status bar for the number of selected characters and lines resp.

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        Gail Gurman
        last edited by Mar 10, 2018, 12:38 PM

        Wow. I didn’t even notice the status bar. Thanks for pointing it out!

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          Gogo Neatza
          last edited by Mar 11, 2018, 9:35 AM

          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’.

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