---
title: "Character Count Formula"
description: "Effortlessly count characters and optimize your text with precision."
url: https://help.stackby.com/en/articles/41-character-count-formula
collection: "Using Formulas"
updated: 2025-01-10
language: en
---

# Character Count Formula

Effortlessly count characters and optimize your text with precision.

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.**

## **Quick steps to using LEN() function**

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: LEN({Name})
    
5.  **Example**:
    

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## **FAQs for Character Count** 

**_1\. Do spaces count?_** 

Yes

**_2\. What about commas and periods?_**

They are also counted.