If your document is starting to get out of hand, length-wise, you are going to want to learn how to make columns in Google Docs.

You can create or add Newspaper-like Columns in Google Docs for the web, without using any newspaper article template.

Learn how to display word count in Google Docs all the time. You need to use Display word count while typing option in Google Docs or press Ctrl+Shift+C.

Be it on the web or mobile, Google Docs makes it easy to check the length of your document, with optional statistics alongside.

If you're writing on Google Docs, here is a guide to check word count on a computer, iPad, iPhone and Android.

Docs is a great word processor overall, and it's an even better one now that Google has just added a live word count.

One of the most frustrating things about Google Docs is having to manually access the menu every time you need to check if you've finally hit that essay's elusive word count. The tech giant is ...