Word Count

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Counts words in selections.A browser extension for viewing the number of words in text selections. Click extension button to activate, then the count appears in the top-right corner of the browser window.

NOTE: Tabs must be reloaded after installing for the extension to work.

• Select text (with mouse or keyboard) to see the number of words

• Quickly view the number of words on an entire page using keyboard shortcut (OS X: CMD-a, Windows: CTRL-a)

• Click the extension button to activate/deactivate

Words are counted by splitting selected text on whitespace and considering resulting groups of characters to be words if they contain at least one "alphanumeric" character.

See also: Character Count: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/character-count/bpjdkinahbalcimnlaijodhiigpfkmjf