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How to Make Your Term Paper Longer Without a Teacher Noticing

By Gump87

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This is how to easily make your term paper longer without the teacher noticing anything.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

Computer
MS Word
Your term paper

Step1

Open your term paper in word.... now I am assuming your paper is size 12 font in this and I bet your teacher said it can't be any different.

Step2

With that in mind we are going to change font size, but she won't be able to notice because we are only going to change the periods in your paper.

Step3

So do not have anything highlighted and go to the toolbar and click "edit" then go down and click "replace".

Step4

This brings up the find and replace box and you are going to put a "."(period) in both input boxes.

Step5

After you have done this click "More" then it will drop down and then highlight your bottom "." and click "Format" and then "Font".

Step6

Now you just select 14 for the font size and click "Ok"

Step7

Now you will be back to the orignal box and you need to click "Replace All".

Step8

It will then change all your periods to size 14, which is not even noticible, but makes a HUGE difference in your paper size. The great thing about this is strict teachers can't tell and it can make a 4 1/2 page paper turn into a 5 and it will increase it even more when you get into bigger papers.

Step9

Here is a print screen of the zoomed difference in the 12pt. and 14pt. periods. I zoomed here at a whopping 500% and you can only bearly tell a difference.

Tips & Warnings

The more periods you have, the longer the paper length increase.

Comments

vdeneen said

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on 7/2/2008 Wish I had thought of this when I was in college... clever!

Gump87 said

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on 6/29/2008 It doesn't effect the word count, but the increase is split evenly over a large area. For example, a 1/2 page increase is split over 4 1/2 pages evenly so it should still keep you within word count range for each page. If you are a teacher and want to protect yourself from this you are going to need the Word file to check for this.

msoexpert said

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on 6/29/2008 Speaking as a college instructor, I've heard of students trying this trick before. One problem with it is this: It doesn't effect the word count! And we have a good idea how many words actually fit on a page with certain margins. So adjusting the punctuation won't change this.

Gump87 said

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on 6/22/2008 I'm glad you enjoyed the read and I know I wish I could go back and fix that typo in my comment, but we can't edit comments. As for the 100% I was talking about catching this with the human eye because that is impossible. The only way is with the word file or maybe a magnifying glass if you have really good vision.

DrPete said

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on 6/22/2008 Hahahhah, this is very clever. It is amazing the lengths students will go to avoid a little bit of work! I am a teacher as well so it looks like your 100% claim is getting a bit weaker.
Well, thanks for teaching me more about the search and replace function. I didn't realize you could replace font size with that.
BTW the word "barely" is not spelled bearly, unless you are talking about grizzly-like behavior. :)