Ho To Change Period Size In Microsoft Word On Mac

As promised, here are a few tips to help double the length of any essay.

All of these statistics/instructions are for Microsoft Word 2007, but they apply equally well to older versions of Word or OpenOffice.

Ho To Change Period Size In Microsoft Word On Mac Laptop

After completing your writing assignment in the word processor application of your choice, go to the. Word makes it easy to change the size of objects. Instructions in this article apply to Word for Microsoft 365, Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013, Word for Microsoft 365 for Mac, Word 2019 for Mac, and Word 2016 for Mac. In Word 2016 for Mac, you can also create a custom paper size and you can choose different paper sources for pages in your document. Choosing different paper trays allows you to use different paper for your first page, which could be a different color or heavier weight than the other pages. Open a Microsoft Word document on your computer. Find the Word document you want to edit in your files, and double-click on its name or icon to open it. Alternatively, you can open the Word app, and start a new, blank document. Select font-size '14' (If your paper assignment requires the main body of your text to be something other than 12-point font, select two font sizes above the required size. For example, if your instructor wants you to write in 10-point font, select font-size 12 for your new periods).

Replace All the Periods
Increase in size:42.9%
How to do it: Go to edit->replace and place a period (.) in both boxes. Highlight the period in the 'replace with' box, and click on 'more' in the lower-right hand corner. Then click format->font.
Under 'size,' increase the font-size significantly – I used 16 in this example.
Click OK, then hit 'replace all.'

Increase the Paragraph Spacing
Increase in size:21.6%
How to do it: Higlight everything (edit->select all), right-click->Paragraph. Set 'Line Spacing' to multiple, and set it to something between 2 and 3 (or between 1 and 2 if it’s a single-spaced essay). I set it to 2.5 for this example.

Change the Font Size
Increase in size:9.1%
How to do it: The font size is right next to the font face, at the top. After highlighting everything, increase it by up to a whole point – I set it a half-point larger (11.5) for this example.

Use a Different Font
Increase in size:9.1%
How to do it: Highlight everything, and just change the font from something other than the default, Calibri. I changed it to the old default, Times New Roman (12 pt font), for the 9.1% increase, but there are probably other similiar-looking fonts that will increase that even more.

Change the Margins
Increase in size:7.2%
How to do it: Go to Page Layout->Margins->Custom and increase the margins. They default to 1' all around – I changed it to 1.15' all around.

Change the Character Spacing
Increase in size:7.1%
How to do it: Select everything (ctrl+a), then right-click->Font->Character Spacing. Change the spacing to something small (Half a point or less). I use 0.3pt

All effects put together:
Increase in size:114.5% (over double!)

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