Hello, @michelle-pace,
You may also be interested by this Python script, built up with the @alan-kilborn’s collaboration and some other Python gurus !
On the last line of this Summary report, it will give you, at the same time, the number of characters, words and bytes of all your selected text, in one or several ranges, of the current file, whatever the view used !
Of course, if you select all the file contents, the results, reported in the last SELECTION(S) line, should be identical to the 3 lines just above :
Total chars, Words count and Buffer length
BTW, note, that I added the mention (Caution !) in the Words line, because the word notion is quite odd in many languages ! Refer to this post :
If needed, you may even change the default definition of a word character, as explained at the beginning of the post !
Best Regards,
guy038