Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated March 2, 2023)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Word in Microsoft 365
Fred has a folder that contains, perhaps, 200 Word documents. Many of these documents have a hundred or more pages. He is looking for a simple way to display a list of all the documents in the folder along with the page count of each of the documents.
Fortunately, this can be easily done in Windows. All you need to do is follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Choose Details dialog box.
Realize that these steps will change the view details for only the current folder—the one you are looking at right now. If you want to change the view for all your folders, then you should perform the following steps immediately after having done the previous set of steps:
Figure 2. The View tab of the Folder Options dialog box.
After you modify the view to include page counts (or any other items you want included), you may need to close the Explorer window and reopen it to make sure you can see all the information you requested.
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2020-08-19 06:49:40
Gary
Great tip.. I've searched the internet. Can I find out how to do this on a mac nope!!
2019-04-03 19:36:06
Josie
Can someone tell me why it doesn't work for all my files? I've got .doc and .docx and it works for some of both of them, but not ALL of both of them. Many files just have a blank for Pages.
I thought maybe if I opened them to refresh or something, but no. It is irritating.
2019-03-15 04:35:10
Chris
Hi bro, for the 'pages' option in choose details. It is only available for Microsoft word file? Is it possible if we can have the number of pages for PDF and TIFF files to be reflected as well?
2016-06-24 10:39:34
Beverly Ramos
How do you get a "page total". I can get a total for individual documents but I need a TOTAL PAGE COUNT for the entire folder.
2015-05-12 05:45:36
Richard
samrim
You need to open an Explorer window and select the Details view. This is a columnar representation of files in a folder with such information as Name, Date Modified, Type, Size, etc. The part of the screen where these titles are shown is where you should right-click. Left click will sort the respective column, and right click will allow you to choose columns.
2015-05-05 04:57:07
samrim
Where is heading column to right click. Not able to do it..pls help
2015-04-26 07:17:56
Sarah Patey
Genius! I've added Word count and rearranged the order of the columns, so now when I have a set of files to edit I can see from a glance at the folder the extent of the job. THANK YOU!
2015-04-26 03:33:50
Yehuda Zimmerman
Is there any way to get a quick total?
2015-04-25 23:02:57
Harry Davis
Some of the results are very inaccurate. A 28 page page document was listed as 4 pages. Some results are accurate.
2015-04-25 18:57:24
Michael (Micky) Avidan
The # of pages aren't, always, accurate.
The bigger the document the higher the error.
I found errors 2-3% in the results in about 15 large documents I have checked,
(*** all star on Pg. 1)
But it gives an estimate of the # of pages in each document.
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2015-04-25 10:45:12
Andre
Good to know, thank you for this tip! Quite helpful.
2015-04-25 09:05:35
martijn
Seems I found the solution, worth to post for others: I right clicked my draft folder - properties - customize - check box 'also apply this template to all subfolders'
that did it!
2015-04-25 09:00:01
martijn
Hello, great tip, I use details in folder a lot for mp3 files, but never realized the page count is also there for MS Word.
I have a big folder called 'draft' for my book, which is full of subfolders with all word docs. It is stored on desktop.
I tried to use your tips, also the second one to apply to subfolders, but I only see the page count in the main folder, but no page count in subfolders. The 'draft' folder is on desktop, is that the problem?
Regards
Martijn van Heeringen
2015-04-25 04:56:17
Fred Niven
Hi,
Many thanks. I've just tried it & it worked perfectly. You've saved me so much time & effort.
All-the-best.
Fred Niven
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