MultiStatisticW

There are different approaches to writing, and while ideally you would prefer quality to quantity, some guidelines to attain said quality also involve a quantitative metric, and this is often expressed in a word count requirement. College students are well aware of the bane of having to meet a certain word count for their papers, after all.

What about the other side, though? If you're the one proofreading or grading those papers, then it would do well to check if they meet the minimum requirements first. MultiStatisticW can help provide you with the relevant word count statistics for up to 15 documents, without requiring you to open them individually.

This is a simple word counting utility, and the no-nonsense interface exemplifies it. Users can thus get straight to feeding their text files in, so that the software can start counting. It recognizes widely-used formats such as .DOCX, .RTF, and .TXT, so you should encounter no compatibility problems while utilizing this solution.

Upon adding your files, you'll have to click the icon that looks like a pie chart, which is situated next to the calculator. Bear in mind that you'll need to have Office installed for everything to go smoothly.

Depending on document size, the word counting can take a little while. It took the software about 15 to 20 seconds to fully tally the stats for our over 9000-page long text file, as an example. Smaller documents were handled in less than a few seconds.

The program will provide page, character, and word count statistics, which can later be exported in Word or Excel format. The reports contain the aforementioned information, and are very tidy.

Users can also take advantage of the built-in calculator, as well as the Summarize tool. While the functions of the former are obvious, the latter is a tool that is able to draw up a summary of the pages, characters, and words of all of your documents.

Perhaps the only reason you would use MultiStatisticW over some online solution to handle your word-counting is the support to simultaneously generate statistics for multiple documents at once. If you're just working with one or two documents, however, this software proposition seems largely lacking.