How to Count Words in PowerPoint

There are many reasons why you might need to count words in PowerPoint . While it's not as common a task in this program as it is in its sibling, Word , there are certain projects where a specific word count is required.

Counting words in PowerPoint is not a difficult task, however, depending on the version of the program you are working in, the methods may change a little.

Below we will tell you how you can keep track of the words you write in PowerPoint in each of the most commonly used versions.

What is PowePoint?

PowerPoint is a program developed by Microsoft. It allows you to create slideshows that include important information. You can also add graphics and images to the presentation slides. It is most often used to design business and school presentations.

Benefits of using PowerPoint

PowerPoint is a program that offers a lot of benefits to users. Some of these benefits include:

• Industry standard: PowerPoint is the most widely used presentation design program in the world and is considered the standard for presentation software. If you create a PowerPoint presentation, others are more likely to find it easier to open and view.
• Variety of alternatives: PowerPoint has a variety of optional features for making your slides such as slide transitions, animations, layouts, templates, and more.
• Various export formats: This program gives the user the option to export the slides you have made in alternative file formats. Some of those files are GIF and JPG images, MPEG-4 video, PDF, RTF (rich text format), WMV (Windows Media Video) and PowerPoint XML.

How to count words in PowerPoint

If you need to learn how to count words in PowerPoint but don't know how to do it, we'll tell you about the methods you should use depending on the version of the program you're working with:

PowerPoint 2007

• Open your document and click the big Office button at the top left
• Click on Setup and then Properties. This will give you some of the document properties in a bar at the top (these vary depending on how you set up your document in the first place).
• And since nothing shows you what you want right away, you have to click on Document Properties and then choose Advanced Properties from the drop-down menu.
• Then finally you get a nice dialog with all the properties you could want, including word count.

PowerPoint 2010

• Open the Powerpoint 2010 file in which you need a word count.
• Click the File tab in the upper left corner of the window.
• Click the Show all properties link at the bottom of the right column.
• Find the Words property in the right column under Properties. This is the total count of all the words that are in your presentation.

Doing this will count all the words in the entire presentation, including speaker notes and hidden slides. This means that if you only want to count the words in the visible slide content, you'll need to export the slides as handouts to Microsoft Word and use Word's word count tool.

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PowerPoint 2013

• Open your presentation in Powerpoint 2013.
• Click the File tab in the upper left corner of the window.
• There, select Information in the column on the left side of the window.
• Click the Show All Properties option at the bottom of the Properties column on the right side of the window.
• The word count is displayed next to Words in the Properties column.

PowerPoint 365

• Open the PowerPoint presentation.
• Click the File tab at the top left of the window.
• Go to the Information option on the left side of the window.
• Click the Show All Properties button at the bottom of the right column.
• You'll find the word count to the right of Words in the right column.

Final words

Regardless of your reason for needing a word count or the version of PowerPoint you're using, there's a way to do it . We've compiled a list of options to help you easily perform this count in just a few steps.