Characters are the basic building blocks of writing. Whether you're composing a writing contest entry, a headline, captions or a tweet, sometimes the number of characters you use in your writing is important. 

For Counting characters, we will use the LEN() Function.

Here are quick steps: 

  1. Create a stack.
  2. Create 2 columns. One is of text type and another is formula one.
  3. Add data is text type column. It can be a long text column as well.
  4. In formula column, add formula below 
    LEN({Name})
  5. Example:

Quick FAQs for Character Count 

1. Do spaces count? 

Yes

2. What about commas and periods?

They are also counted.