![]() ![]() ![]() I have colleagues who really like justification because it looks more orderly on a page. Personally, I like ragged lines (“align left”) and not justified lines because I find justified text harder to read. ![]() Here is the button to turn on justification. (Also, try combining justification with different fonts, see below.) It’s worked to shorten some prior grants, so it’s worth giving a try. In my 4 page ipsum lorem document, the length didn’t change. Sometimes it shortens a lot, sometimes it stays the same, sometimes it’s a smidge longer. Justification’s effect on length is unpredictable. Justification makes words reach from the left to rightmost extremes of the margin, stretching or compressing the width of the spacing between words to make it fit. Hyphenation will get you a few lines in a 4 page document. Hyphenation breaks longer words across lines with a hyphen in the style commonly used in novels. ![]() I only just learned about hyphens from Jason Buxbaum in this tweet. I made up a 4 page ‘ipsum lorem’ document for this so I can give actual quantifications of what this does to document length. This also assumes that you are already using narrow margins. This post is focused on NIH grant formatting but details here are relevant for most grants. It turns out that there are some built-in settings in MS Word to help you get below the length limit without removing additional text. You’ve toiled on your grant day in and out for weeks on end, and despite chopping out loads of overly verbose text, it’s still over the length. ![]()
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