In this case, it means one or multiple continuous white spaces. The plus sign “+” means one or multiple continuous characters of the same kind. The “\S” means a white space in the computer language. When I don’t know the regular expression like most people, this function doesn’t make sense. The REGEX function looks like this: REGEX(“\S+”). And you must use the function REGEX to express the pattern of the strings to count for.
The location of your text is the cell that you put your text into. Mac Numbers function COUNTMATCHES needs to know two things in order to do the word count: the location of your essay and the pattern of the strings to count for. The instruction on how to use the function is below.
Obviously the number of white spaces is the same as the number of words. But it can count the white space between the words. I don’t want to count the words with my fingers either.įortunately, there is a creative way to do word count in Mac Numbers by using the Numbers function COUNTMATCHES. Sadly, Mac Numbers doesn’t have that feature. But when I do, I want to know the word count.
