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#CHARACTER COUNT WORD FOR MAC HOW TO#

If you decide you don’t want this service, you can easily remove these and others from Mac OS X’s Services menu by going to an unlikely place in System Preferences. (side note: you can also use Terminal to kill all SystemServices, but that can have unintended side effects so we won’t be recommending it specifically). The service should immediately transfer to all apps through Mac OS X, but you may want to restart some apps if you don’t see the character and word counter option in the Services menu.

Now that you’ve confirmed that the word counter service is working as intended, you can go ahead and exit Automator.

Find the number of words and characters of the selected text in a pop-up window like so.

Go to the “Services” menu and choose ‘Count Characters & Words’ choice.

Select all text or just a sample of the text and right click (Ctrl + click) with the mouse button.

Start a text file in an app such as TextEdit.

This does not have to be a text editor or input field, it can be plain text in non-editable documents, web pages or Quick Look windows, all you need is that the text can be selected. Now that the service has been created, you can use it just about anywhere in Mac OS X where text or words are selectable.

#CHARACTER COUNT WORD FOR MAC HOW TO#

How to Use the word and character counting service in any Mac OS X app There shouldn’t be any issues, but if you run into an error it’s probably because copying and pasting the above code went wrong translating characters, so you can try running the code directly from nslater’s GitHub page if not. Now that you’ve created and saved the service, let’s test it to make sure it works.

Save the service and name it something pretty short, such as’ Count characters and Words”.