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 ...

Understand your document's building blocks.

Everyone knows what a hyphen is. It’s the graphic character to the right of the 0 on your keyboard that connects two words or indicates that a word is wrapped to the next line at the right margin.

Use Word’s no-width optional break character to facilitate wrapping Your email has been sent Long text at the right margin usually gets wrapped to the next line, leaving a gap. Word's optional break ...