Open your document. Click on 'Tools' - Word count is thr third option down.
There should be no problem running OpenOffice on Windows 10 and OpenOffice has always been able to read Word files (there may be problems writing some of those files back out as the same Word format due to licensing issues, but if you intend on switching to OpenOffice you will be saving as OpenOffice format not Word).
Openoffice, or get word for Mac.
You can't get a 'live' character count - but you can get one once you've finished typing.Save the document, and keep it open. Click on Tools and select Word count. It will tell you how many words (and characters) are in the document.
Microsoft Word, OpenOffice are a few to use. They are the best. Microsoft will cost you, but OpenOffice is free.
Yes it can.
Yes.
OpenOffice (ant its forks such as LibreOffice etc.) have a Word processor, a Spreadsheet program a Presentation program, a Database program an equation editor and a whole lot more.
Microsoft have said that the operating system is the biggest difference between Word for Mac and Word for Windows. I use OpenOffice which is able to read, write and save Word Docs on this iMac. OpenOffice is also low cost especially compared to Office
Yes. OpenOffice is perfectly legal.
Which ones? Microsoft Word, for example, is paid. But other programs like openoffice, are free.
Things like Microsoft Word, Openoffice Word processor. They're basically anything you can change font, type in, or edit a word document.
If you mean can you write something using Microsoft Works word-processor - and open it using OpenOffice - yes you can ! OpenOffice will happily open .wks files.