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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