You can get the word count of your PowerPoint notes and slides—or just the speaker notes—on both Windows 10 and Mac. Unfortunately, you can’t currently get the word count on PowerPoint for the web.

View the PowerPoint Presentation Word Count on Windows

To get the word count of your slides and notes on Windows 10, open the PowerPoint presentation and click the “File” tab.

Next, select “Info” in the left-hand pane.

Now, under the “Related Documents” section, click “Show All Properties.”

The “Properties” group will expand. Next to the “Words” option, you can see the word count of the PowerPoint slides and notes. Know that the “Notes” option just shows how many notes appear in the PowerPoint presentation rather than the word count of the notes.

If you want to find out the word count of just the notes, you’ll need to export and open them in Microsoft Word.

Click the “File” tab and, in the left-hand pane, click “Export.”

In the “Export” group, select “Create Handouts.”

The “Create Handouts in Microsoft Word” section will appear. Again, click “Create Handouts.”

The “Send to Microsoft Word” dialog box will appear. Choose the page layout style that you want by clicking the bubble next to the desired option. In the “Add slides to Microsoft Word document” group, there are two options to choose from:

• Paste: The content pasted in Word won’t reflect any updates made to the presentation.
• Paste Link: Any updates made to the presentation will be reflected in Word.

Click “OK.”

The presentation will open in Microsoft Word. You’ll see the word count of the notes in the bottom-left corner of the window.

View the PowerPoint Presentation Word Count on Mac

If you’re using Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac, you can get the word count of your slides and notes. However, Mac’s export option doesn’t allow you to export the PowerPoint file as a Word doc, so to get the word count of just your notes, you’ll need to manually copy and paste them over to Word.

To get the word count of your presentation and notes, open PowerPoint and click the “File” tab.

Select “Properties” in the drop-down menu.

In the “Properties” window, click the “Statistics” tab.

You can find the word count in the “Statistics” group.

That’s all there is to it.

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The Facebook app on iPhone and Android has a separate section for your ad activity. Here, you can track all the sponsored posts that you’ve interacted with on your news feed. The steps for getting there are slightly different for both platforms.

Find Recently Viewed Ads on Facebook for Android

You’ll find your recent ad activity in the Facebook menu. To get started, open the Facebook app for Android. Then, tap the hamburger menu button from the top toolbar.

Choose the “See More” option.

Now, tap the “Recent Ad Activity” button.

From here, you’ll be able to see a reverse-chronological list of all the ads and sponsored posts you’ve interacted with. Tap an ad to open it in the browser. From the menu, you can also find the option to hide the ad in the future.

You can tap the “Save” button to save an ad for later. You’ll find all the saved ads in the Saved tab.

Find Recently Viewed Ads on Facebook for iPhone

The steps for viewing recently clicked ads on Facebook are different in the iPhone app. To get started, open the Facebook app for iPhone.

Then, tap the hamburger button from the bottom toolbar and choose the “See More” option.

Now, choose the “Recent Ad Activity” option.

You will see all the ads you’ve clicked on recently. Just tap an ad to open it in your browser.

Wondering which advertisers have your private information on Facebook? Facebook has an option in settings where you can find out.

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By default, you can’t set accent colors on the Start menu and taskbar in Windows 10 unless you have your appearance set to dark mode. If you’re in light mode and you visit “Colors” in Settings, you’ll see the “Start, taskbar, and action center” grayed out.

To fix it, we’ll need to change to dark mode first. Launch Settings by clicking your Start menu and selecting the small gear icon. You can press Windows+i on your keyboard to open the Settings window.

In Settings, click “Personalization.”

In “Personalization,” click “Colors” in the sidebar.

In “Colors” settings, click the “Choose your color” drop-down menu and select “Custom.”

When you select “Custom” from the “Choose your color” menu, two new options will appear below. Under “Choose your default Windows mode,” click the radio button beside “Dark.” This will allow you to set an accent color for your Start menu and taskbar.

(Since you chose “Custom” earlier, you can set “Choose your default app mode” to either “Light” or “Dark” depending on your personal preference.)

After that, scroll down the page until you see “Show accent color on the following surfaces.” Since you’re in dark mode, the “Start, taskbar, and action center” option will no longer be grayed out. If you’d like to use it, place a checkmark in the box beside it.

Once that’s set, scroll back up on the “Colors” page, and you can pick any color you’d like for your accent. You can even place a check beside “Automatically pick an accent color from my background” and have the accent color match your desktop wallpaper.

After that, close Settings. To test out your new color, open your Start menu, and it will match the accent color you selected.

If you ever want to change colors again, just revisit Settings > Personalization > Colors and pick a different accent color from the grid. Or you can uncheck the “Start, taskbar, and action center” option to return to default colors. Have fun!

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What Is the LEN Function?

The LEN function is a simple calculation function that counts all the characters in a given text string, including numbers, letters, special characters, and spaces. The function name (LEN) is shorthand for length, as the function output provides the total length of a text string as a number.

To give you an example, let’s assume that an Excel workbook contains a cell with the following text:

This is an example text string containing 56 characters!

The text string contains spaces, text, numbers, and a special character, and has a length of 56 characters. Should you wish to confirm this calculation, you could use LEN to do so.

How to Use the LEN Function in Microsoft Excel

Unlike other Excel functions, the LEN function is extremely simple to use. It contains only one argument—the text string that you wish to calculate. You can either place this in the formula directly, or you can refer to a cell that contains the text string.

For example, the following formula calculates the length of a text string contained in cell A1. If you wish to use this formula yourself, replace the cell reference with your own.

=LEN(A1)

As previously mentioned, you can also use LEN to calculate the length of a text string written into the formula directly using the example formula below.

=LEN("This is an example text string.")

You can replace the example text with your own, but you’ll need to surround the text string in quote marks. Alternatively, place the text in a separate cell (without quote marks), then use the cell reference for that cell in your formula to determine the length instead.

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