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Add and Update Word Count in Word 2016 for Mac

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You're watching VisiHow! In this video, we are going to show how to add the word count to a document using Word 2016 on the Mac.

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To add the word count, we click on a document
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In this video, we have a template opened.

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First, let's type in the words "Word Count" and then type a colon and space
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We can name it whatever we want.

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We click "Insert" from the top ribbon
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We click "Field"
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Now, we click "Document Information" from the first panel
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In the second panel, we are going to click "NumWords"
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This basically stands for "number of words".

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We click on "OK"
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In this video, it will be shown that there are 580 words in the document.
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Now, we can add in some additional words
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Let's type "a few more words" in the document. We will notice that the number does not update automatically. It is easy to update it.

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We right-click the number
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We can click "Update Field" or press the shortcut, which is "Command", "Option", "Shift", and "You"
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Once we click "Update Field", Word will show the count for the additional words that we typed.
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That was how to add the word count into the document using Microsoft Word 2016 on the Mac. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the space below. Thank you for watching VisiHow!