how do I count characters and words in outlook?

[john4703]

At work we use Outlook to respond to text messages. We need to count
characters to keep below the 160 maximum for a text message. How do we do
this in Outlook?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

use word as the editor and use it's word count feature.

 

[john4703]

This is the obvious answer but we have an IT manger who watches his budget
like a hawk and does not want to spent the cash for several more Word
licenses. I feel there must be some way of counting characters in Outlook
but I am missing it.
Maybe there is some free software that does a character count?
All help very much appreciated.

 

[john4703]

This is the obvious answer but we have an IT manger who watches his budget
like a hawk and does not want to spent the cash for several more Word
licenses. I feel there must be some way of counting characters in Outlook
but I am missing it.
Maybe there is some free software that does a character count?
All help very much appreciated.

 

[John Blessing]

You could put some custom vba code in the itemsend event.

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[jerryk]

How do I do this in Outlook/Word 2007? I can get the word count in the
status bar in Word, but I don't see how to get it in Outlook.
Thank you.
JerryK