Save Time By Filling the Pages Faster
Have you ever had a project proposal to write up by noon? Maybe a 5-page paper due tomorrow at 8 A.M.? Got writer’s block? Sometimes there just isn’t enough to write about.
If your current piece has a page-minimum, here is a little known trick to employ in your everyday Microsoft Word to get the job done quicker.
Increasing the size of your font and increasing the size of your margins are worth trying, but the savvy reviewer will notice these shortcuts quickly. Something they won’t be looking for is an increased period size.
By increasing the size of your periods, an 8-page paper can become a 10 page paper without a single additional word.
Here’s how to do it:
(1) Go to Edit > Replace
(2) Click the More button
(3) Put a period in both search boxes. Make sure that the last one you click is the one titled “Replace with:”
(4) Click the Format button and then click Font…
(5) Change the Size to 16 and click the OK button
(6) Be sure that under the Replace With: field it says Font: 16pt
(7) Click the Replace All button and watch the magic.
The more periods you have, the more pages will be added on. I expect a 7-10% increase depending of your frequency of periods. You can try to make the font size for the periods larger, but don’t go much higher than 16pt, as it starts to get noticeable.
If you are really in a bind, you can try this with commas, but they seem to be more noticeable than the periods.
