Make All Periods Bigger Microsoft Word Mac

Posted By admin On 17.08.21

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

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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 (.) 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.'

You could create a new style (it is important to make this a character style, not paragraph style) which is the same as body text and just set the font size to something bigger. Than hit CMD + F and go to 'Advanced'. Style: your new style with bigger font size.
Microsoft Word for Mac 2019 now has built-in shortcuts for this: ⌘ Command+ increases the font size by one step ⌘ Command+decreases the font size by one step. Improve this answer. Follow edited Nov 6 '19 at 12:32. Answered Mar 13 '19 at 16:32. Ruohola ruohola.

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.

After completing your writing assignment in the word processor application of your choice, go to the. Click Insert Table Insert Table. Under Table Size, select the number of columns and rows. In AutoFit Behavior, you have three options for setting how wide your columns are: Initial column width: You can let Word automatically set the column width with Auto, or you can set a specific width for all. Two spaces after a period may be wrong within Microsoft Word, but that doesn't mean you have to comply. Here's how to tell Word and the online version of Word how many spaces should go after the.

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.

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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!)