You can turn on a character count on your iPhone's Messages app with a setting change, so that your phone will tell you how long your SMS messages are as you type. To turn on this setting, you'll just ...

While Excel was designed for numbers, it also involves text in cells. So, for example, if you want to transfer your data and limit the characters for each cell, you may want to know how to count ...

Knowing that Twitter limits users to 140-character posts has always been equal parts joy and frustration: Joy in knowing that some people on the social media site can’t get too long winded, and ...

Twitter may have just upped its character limit to 280, but you wouldn't know it just by looking at its tweet composer. As part of the update, which doubled the amount of characters you can cram into ...

If you need to count how many of each character is included in a file or phrase, there are some handy commands you can string together to accomplish this along with scripts and aliases that can make ...