Choose a new character scale. Word's default is 100%/normal, so increasing the scale will make your letters scale further apart with more white space between each character.

As one would expect, Microsoft Word includes a feature to count the words in a document; it also includes the ability to count the characters. Knowing the character count of a document is ...

The responses show the number of lines (1), words (3) and characters (13 counting the newline). If you want to get the same information for a file, pipe the file to the wc command as shown below.