Changing the format of the content in Word is not complicated. There are various options available in the top ribbon of the document. Sometimes, you may feel that the periods added to the document are not big enough. This article shows you how to make all periods bigger on Word online.
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How To Make Periods Larger In Word Online
Increasing the size of periods is a common trick students use to make their essays appear bigger. Word online may not have the advanced formatting options like the desktop version of Word, but it can be done. Here are the steps to make the periods bigger in Word online.
- Start by logging in to Word online using your credentials and opening the document you want to edit. You can also log in to OneDrive and access the document from there.
- Click on the Home tab in the top ribbon of the document.

- Under the various options available, click on the find symbol. The magnifying glass icon.
- You will have a dropdown menu with two options: Find and Replace.
- Find will help you look for a word or symbol you are looking for. Replace, on the other hand, will replace a word or symbol with another.
- In Word online, you do not have the option to customize the replace symbol. Click on Find.

- You will now have a pop-up window in the Search for section type.
- Hit Enter
- You will now have a list of all the periods used in the document.
- Go to the first one and click on it.
- You will be redirected to the spot where the period is on the document. Click on the period. Now click on Home and increase the font size.
- Copy the period.
- Now, go to the second sentence on the Find list. Click on it and go to the period in the document. Select the period and paste the one you have copied.
- Do this for all the results in the Find window.
- Save the Document. You can now print or send the document as usual.
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How to make all periods bigger in Word on Mac
Here are the steps to alter the size of all the periods in a Word document on your Mac system.
- Go to Finder and open the document that you would like to edit. Alternatively, you could open Word and select the document you want to work on from the home page.
- Once the document is open, you can click on the Find icon (which is the magnifying glass). On Mac, it is located in the right corner near the document’s name. You can also use the Keyboard shortcut Command+F.
- The arrow on the left will have two options as a dropdown menu. Select Replace.
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