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When you need to know how many words, pages, characters, paragraphs, or lines are in a document, check the status bar. For a partial word count, select the words you want to count. The status bar shows the word count for that selection and for the entire document.
Word can insert the word count into your document and update that information as often as you want. Select in your document where you want the word count to appear. Go to Insert > Quick Parts > Field. In the Field names list, select NumWords, and then select OK.
Turn on Track Changes. You can set Word for the Web to track changes for all users who are collaborating on the document or to track only your changes. Go to Review > Track Changes.
Turn AutoCorrect on or off in Word. Go to File > Options > Proofing and select AutoCorrect Options. On the AutoCorrect tab, select or clear Replace text as you type. Was this information helpful?
Add or remove line numbers. Word can automatically count the lines in a document and display the appropriate number beside each line of text. This is useful when you need to refer to specific lines in a document, such as a script or a legal contract.
By default, if you type an asterisk or 1., Word recognizes that you are trying to start a bulleted or numbered list. You can turn off the automatic list recognition feature. Go to File > Options > Proofing. Select AutoCorrect Options, and then select the AutoFormat As You Type tab.
If spelling or grammatical errors aren't underlined, you might need to turn on automatic spelling and grammar checking, as follows. Turn on (or off) automatic spelling and grammar checking. On the Word menu, click Preferences > Spelling & Grammar.
With text already in your document, highlight the text that you would like to rewrite or transform into a table. In the left margin next to your text, select the Copilot icon. From the menu, select Rewrite to have Copilot provide rewritten options to choose from.
Select the page number and press Delete. Select Close Header and Footer or press Esc to exit. Tip: If you want your second page to start at 1 rather than 2, go to Insert > Page Number > Format Page Numbers, and set Start at under Page Numbering to 0, rather than 1.
Select the text that you want to change. On the Home tab, click the Font dialog box launcher (circled in green in the screenshot below), and then click the Advanced tab. In the Spacing box, click Expanded or Condensed, and then specify how much space you want in the By box.