Readers, writers and students – do you need to be able to calculate a word count on your stories, articles and essays? We can do that in Notion! Or rather, Notion does it already for us.
- To see the count for all words within a Notion page, click the ellipsis (three dots) in the top-right corner of your page and find the word count near the bottom of the menu:
You can then transcribe the word count into a property if you need to perform further calculations on it.
2. But what if the words you need to count are in a table property? We can extract this using a simple formula:
if(length(prop("Property Name")) > 0, length(replaceAll(prop("Property Name"), "[^ ]", "")) + 1, 0)This essentially counts the spaces between words to come up with an accurate count.
You can further break this down into a page count by dividing the total number of words by the number of words in a page (in this example we use 500):
if(prop("Word Count") > 0, round(prop("Word Count") / 500 * 100) / 100, 0)
