Sorry..no, not by itself. But if you install Word Services, you get an option for "Statistics..." in the Services menu, and THAT does the word/character/line/a few others count. Sorry for not clarifying that in my orig post. Word Services: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10523 there are a couple of other goodies I use, too, likce Calc Service and Anti-Word service you can find too. nk On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:22 PM, Robert MacLeay wrote: > > TextEdit does word count? Where and how?