So, let's say that you are a novice copywriter who is just starting to write articles, who stumbles upon a number of problems in this difficult matter. In this article I would like to touch on the topic of counting characters in your text.
On all exchanges, all customers pay for a certain number of characters in the text. Everyone has different requirements, and this is normal. But what to do, how to calculate how many characters are already in your text? You will need some kind of letter counting program. We need a program, because you won’t be able to read the characters manually each time you change the text. But if you decide to count manually, then this is bad, since adequate people do not do this.
There are several options for how to count letters. For example, you can use the well-known program "Microsoft Word". There is a standard function for counting characters, as well as words in the text. Find this feature is not difficult. Its location depends on the version of the program you have installed. If the version is 2003, then in the menu you need to find the item “service”, and there select the item “statistics”.
If the version is new, that is, 2010, then here is a little different. The most affordable is to click the “word count” button at the bottom of the panel. It displays all the detailed statistics on the number of words and characters. You can calculate the number of letters in a text with or without spaces. But almost always, in all cases of orders, customers pay for the number of characters they need without spaces.
For convenience, you can assign hotkeys to call statistics. You can do this using the menu. But the path to the appointment of this particular function is long and not every inexperienced user will be able to do this. There is another way. Press the keyboard shortcut “ctrl” + “alt” + “+ (plus on the small numeric keypad)” on the keyboard. Your cursor will change. Then click on the "number of words" button and assign a keyboard shortcut convenient for you to call statistics.
But there are times when customers require a certain number of letters of a particular layout. That is, for example, they can order a text of 2-3 thousand Russian characters. But in Word, statistics are not only for one specific set of letters, but counting is for all languages and keyboard layouts.
How to be here? To do this, you will need a special program to count the letters of a particular keyboard layout. Since, most likely, you are a user of Russian-language sites, as well as customers, then in such situations you will need a program to count the letters from the set of “Russian keyboard”.
If you search for a similar program on the Internet, you will not find any famous program. In the best case, you will find only some forums of programmers, where there are discussions, how to count the number of letters and other things. That is, a discussion of various programming tasks. But you do not need it. In other words, there is no such program that considers only the number of Russian letters.
But recently, for this purpose, that is, in order to count the number of Russian characters in the text, I wrote a program for counting letters, which counts exactly the characters from a set of Russian letters. It is quite simple, convenient and free. Even a child can deal with it. You just need to enter the text, and the program below will display the number of Russian characters. Soon this program will be available for free download on the FB.ru website and will be able to make life easier for many authors who are working on the development of this site.
You just need to download it, then run it and just insert your text there and that's it. Everything is quite simple and convenient. This program weighs very little and does not require any activation, since it is free, unlike the Microsoft Word program.
In addition to the methods described above, you can use the means of exchange sites. When you submit an order, it always shows how many characters the text contains. But this method is not entirely convenient, since you will always need to copy the text from the text editor where you write the article and paste it into the field of the main text of the article on the order submission page. Then the information you need will be displayed there.
Download program
The author's program for counting the number of Russian letters in the text.