\n Increase in size:<\/span> 42.9%<\/span>
\n How to do it:<\/span> 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.
\nUnder "size," increase the font-size significantly – I used 16 in this example.
\nClick OK, then hit "replace all."
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<\/a><\/p>\nIncrease the Paragraph Spacing<\/span> Change the Font Size<\/span> Use a Different Font<\/span> Change the Margins<\/span> Change the Character Spacing<\/span> All effects put together:<\/span> 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. Replace All the Periods Increase in size: 42.9% How to do it: Go to edit->replace and place a period […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blueraja.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Increase in size:<\/span> 21.6%<\/span>
\n How to do it:<\/span> 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.
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\n Increase in size:<\/span> 9.1%<\/span>
\n How to do it:<\/span> 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.
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\n Increase in size:<\/span> 9.1%<\/span>
\n How to do it:<\/span> 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.\n <\/p>\n
\n Increase in size:<\/span> 7.2%<\/span>
\n How to do it:<\/span> Go to Page Layout->Margins->Custom and increase the margins. They default to 1" all around – I changed it to 1.15" all around.
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\n Increase in size:<\/span> 7.1%<\/span>
\n How to do it:<\/span> 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
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\n Increase in size:<\/span> 114.5%<\/span> (over double!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"