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Originally Posted by Glitch

we didn't have word counts in my college just page counts.

So then you could you know make the period a font size larger and add an extra space here and there to stretch things out

My school combated that by dictating margins, line spacing, and font size.

I countered by using a wider font in the same size (Bookman Old Style is still professional-looking but it's quite a bit wider than Times New Roman).