How to read the number of words when writing a novel with a computer?

If you write in a notebook, you can see how big the notebook is, say, a few kilograms. Generally speaking, a Chinese character is 2 bytes, 1K is 1024 bytes, and 1M is 1024K, which can be known by calculation.

Of course, you can also find a text that can remember the number of words.

Or use word, just select Word Count in the Tools tab.

Include punctuation marks.