MS Word Character Count

We just had to figure this out in the office and I found the instructions somewhere online.

If you ever need to get a character count, not just a word count, in MS Word, this is what you need to do:

1. open the Word document
2. click on the Office button
3. Select Prepare
4. Select Properties
5. There's a drop down at the top, left-hand corner of the new bar that just opened. Select it and click on Advanced Properties.
6. The window that just opened up has a Statistics tab, click on it.
7. Voilá