Word Counter
Text Tool
Your advanced word and character counter.
Words
0
Characters
0
Characters (No Spaces)
0
Reading Time
~0s
How to Use the Text Tool
This guide explains how to use all the features of your advanced word and character counter.
1. Basic Usage: Typing and Counting
The primary function of the tool is to analyze the text you provide.
Entering Text
Simply start typing or paste any text into the large text box that says "Start typing or paste your text here...".
Real-time Statistics
As you type, the four boxes below the text area will update automatically:
- Words: Shows the total number of words.
- Characters: Shows the total number of characters, including spaces and punctuation.
- Characters (No Spaces): Shows the count of characters, excluding all spaces.
- Reading Time: Provides an estimated time to read the text, based on an average reading speed of 225 words per minute.
2. The Text Area
Clear Text
To quickly delete everything in the text box, click the 'X' icon located at the top-right corner inside the text area.
3. Toolbar Functions
The toolbar above the text area contains powerful tools to manage and format your text.
- Undo (↶): Reverts the last action you performed.
- Redo (↷): Re-applies an action that you have just undone.
- Case: Click this button to reveal a dropdown menu for changing the text case:
- Sentence case: Capitalizes the first letter of each sentence.
- lowercase: Converts all text to lowercase.
- UPPERCASE: Converts all text to uppercase.
- Capitalized Case: Capitalizes the first letter of every word.
- Clean: Removes extra spaces between words and extra blank lines between paragraphs, making your text neat and tidy.
- Download: Downloads the entire text from the text area as a
.txtfile nameddocument.txt. - Print: Opens your browser's print dialog to print the text directly.
- Speak: Reads the text in the text area aloud using your browser's text-to-speech engine. Clicking it again while it's speaking will stop it.
- Record (Talk to Type): Uses your device's microphone to convert your speech into text.
- Click the icon to start recording. The browser may ask for microphone permission.
- The icon will turn red while it is listening.
- Click the icon again to stop recording.
- Note: This feature may not be available on all web browsers.
- Upload: Allows you to open a
.txtfile from your computer. The content of the file will be loaded into the text area.
4. Automatic Features
The tool includes convenient features that work in the background.
- Auto-Save: Your text is automatically saved to your browser's local storage every 15 seconds. The status "Saved at [time]" will appear in the top-right corner to confirm.
- Session Restore: If you close the tab or browser and later return, the last automatically saved text will be loaded back into the text area, so you don't lose your work.