The app automatically counts the number of pages and words in your document and displays them on the status bar at the bottom of the workspace. You can edit, print, or save as with any Word document.

To ensure that any updates that occur to the original PowerPoint presentation are reflected in the Word document, click Paste Link and click OK.įrom there, the presentation opens as a Word document in a new window.

To paste the content that you want to remain unchanged when the content in the original PowerPoint presentation is updated, click Paste, and then click OK.

Select the page layout you want from the Send to Microsoft Word dialog box.

Click Export > Create Handouts on the File tab.

The number next to Word counts the text on slides and notes pages. The information is at the top right of the page.

Select Show All Properties at the bottom of the rightmost pan.

Open the presentation you wish to count.

To count the words in slides and notes pages in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows:

You can find the number of words in a presentation and additional information like the number of slides, notes, hidden slides, and multimedia clips in PowerPoint.

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