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Practical guides on counting, cleaning and formatting text.
Count words in Google DocsThe exact menu path in every app, and why two counters give you two different numbers.Meta description lengthWhy 160 characters is a rule of thumb and 920 pixels is the real limit.Instagram caption lengthThe hard limit is 2,200 characters. The one that matters is the 125 you see before the fold.Remove duplicates in ExcelThree apps, four methods, and the one setting that silently deletes the wrong rows.PDF text breaksThe file has no paragraphs to give you. Here is what it does have, and how to rebuild the text.Title case vs sentence caseThree style guides, three different answers, and the four-letter rule that separates them.What is a URL slugThree to five words, lowercase, hyphens, no dates. And why changing it later costs you traffic.Fancy fonts show boxesThose styled letters are separate Unicode characters, not styling. That explains every symptom.How random is randomGood enough for a raffle, not good enough for a password. Here is the actual difference.Invisible charactersYour text looks fine and behaves badly. These are the usual six culprits.