Be it on the web or mobile, Google Docs makes it easy to check the length of your document, with optional statistics alongside.

You can check the word count of a document in Google Docs by using a keyboard shortcut or by accessing the option in the header menu.

If you're writing on Google Docs, here is a guide to check word count on a computer, iPad, iPhone and Android.

Learn how to display word count in Google Docs all the time. You need to use Display word count while typing option in Google Docs or press Ctrl+Shift+C.

I dig Google Docs a lot. There's one thing that I passionately despise about it though – its crappy word count feature. But things are about to change.

Strangely, the live word count doesn’t pop up whenever you start a new document on your desktop—nor is there a way to enable it by default for every new document you start.

One of the most frustrating things about Google Docs is having to manually access the menu every time you need to check if you've finally hit that essay's elusive word count. The tech giant is ...

Google Docs automatically detects spelling and grammar errors. You can also run a manual spell check, which will let you check the entire document.