Wordcount formula?

[Ana_Capucho]

How can I do a word count of a record?
I have a table to organize what I write divided by scenes and I want to count the words in every scene.
Thanks in advance.

[Sheryl_Baptista · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ana_Capucho, I was looking into this as well today and found this page https://support.airtable.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035351893-Word-and-character-counts

They recommend using LEN({Text Field}) - LEN(SUBSTITUTE({Text Field}, ’ ', ‘’))+1

I’ve only started using it, but it has been working for me. Hope it’s what you’re looking for! :slightly_smiling_face:

Edit: I realized that it doesn’t return 0 for when there’s no text at all (instead it returns 1). So I got around that by modifying the above formula to return 0 when there is no text.

IF(({Text Field}=BLANK()),0,(LEN({Text?}) - LEN(SUBSTITUTE({Text Field},’ ', ‘’))+1))

[Thomas_de_Beauc]

This method doesn't work when there are extra spaces at the beginning / end of the text or multiple spaces between words, and this happens so often.

Here is a formula that handles that :

IF(TRIM(REGEX_REPLACE({Text field}, '\\s+', ' '))=BLANK()
, 
  0
,
  LEN(TRIM(REGEX_REPLACE({Text field}, '\\s+', ' ')))
  - LEN(SUBSTITUTE(
      TRIM(REGEX_REPLACE({Text field}, '\\s+', ' '))
    ,
      ' ', ''
    ))
  + 1
)