How To Make Periods Larger In Word Online

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.

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.
• You will now have a pop-up window – Find and Replace.

• Click on the settings wheel for more options
• Here, Select Advanced Find and Replace. A menu will popup
• Click on Replace
• In the Find section, type.
• The Replace with section type. You will see a downward-facing arrow on the left under the Replace bar. Click on it
• You will now have various formatting options. Go to the Replace section.
• Click on Format for a dropdown menu.
• Select Font

• Go to Font Size and click on the arrow.
• You will have a list of font sizes to choose from. Select the one that you would like to change the font to.

• After selecting the font size, you will notice a Format specification under the Replace bar.
• Select Replace All

• After the replacements are done, you will receive a popup notification like this.
• Click on No. If you want to start a new search, click on Yes.
• Your document can now be saved and printed.

Manually increase the size of periods in Word

The size of the periods can also be changed manually. For this, manually select the documents’ periods by pressing the Command key. You can then click on Home and increase the size.

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How to make periods bigger for MS Word on Windows?

You might need an extended essay (at least visually) or someone to read the article with proper punctuation. Whatever the reason, here is how to increase the size of all the periods in your MS Word document on your Windows system.

• Start by locating and opening the Word document you want to work on. You can do it in Explorer or Word.
• Once you have the document, Click Home and go to the Replace tool under the editing section. This is generally located on the right of the ribbon.
• Click on the tool to see a pop-up menu on the screen.
• You will now have a section to enter the character to find in this box type.
• In the Replace with section, type in.
• You will see an arrow that opens up more options at the bottom. Click on it.
• In the Replace section, click on Format and select Font
• The Font menu will have options to change the font type and size. Go to the size section and specify the size.
• Click on OK
• You will now have a format specification under the Replace bar.
• You can either use replace or replace all.
• If you want to see how the period will look, click on replace and then go to Find Next and replace the other one. If you want to replace all the periods, click on Replace all.
• The changes will be made to the document. Save and close, send or print.

Another way of doing this is by selecting all the periods and increasing the font. To select all the periods, press the shift key and click on all the periods. After selecting the periods, you can go to Home and increase the size.

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How to increase the size of periods on Android devices?

Here is how you can increase the size of periods in Word documents on an Android device.

• Download the Word application from the store and log in to your office online account.
• Tap on and open the document you would like to edit.
• Enable editing
• Go to search and type in.
• You will have a list of all the periods used throughout the document.
• As you do not have the formatting option under replace, you must manually change the font size.
• Please do it for the first one and then copy the desired size.
• You can then go through all the periods and increase the size.

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How to increase the size of periods on iOS devices?

Here are the steps you can follow to increase the size of periods in a Word online document on iOS

• Download the application and log in to your account
• Open the document you would want to edit
• Enable editing to make changes to the document
• Go to Find and type in.
• You will have a list of all the periods used
• Please tap on the first one and increase its size
• copy the formatted period
• Now go to the next one and paste the period
• Repeat for the entire document.

Conclusion

You would want to increase the number of periods added to a Word document for various reasons. This article tutorial took you through the different ways it can be done. As there are no advanced options in Word online, you will need to do it manually using the Find tool. But on Mac and Windows systems, it can be done in a jiffy using the Replace tool.

If you want to replace only a few period,s use the Replace option followed by Find Next. The Replace all option is the most convenient for working with all the periods in the document.

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