Be it on the web or mobile, Google Docs makes it easy to check the length of your document, with optional statistics alongside.

If you are new to Google Docs and would like to know-how to display the word count for a document, page or selection of text. This quick guide will show you how you can easily view a word count ...

You can check the word count of a document in Google Docs by using a keyboard shortcut or by accessing the option in the header menu.

If you're writing on Google Docs, here is a guide to check word count on a computer, iPad, iPhone and Android.

Strangely, the live word count doesn’t pop up whenever you start a new document on your desktop—nor is there a way to enable it by default for every new document you start.

I dig Google Docs a lot. There's one thing that I passionately despise about it though – its crappy word count feature. But things are about to change.

So easy This is a feature Google Docs has needed for some time. With the ability to easily view and edit MS Office documents, Google Drive has become even more powerful and useful.