[Joe McGuire]

There are a number of ways. Editing, a/k/a pruning is the time-honored way.
As Shakespeare had Polonius remind us, "Brevity is the soul of wit." Could
that be the basis for the page limit? Presumably your prof did not set that
limit for purely selfish, if understandable, reasons, like "they don't pay
me enough to read more than 2 pages of student prose."

You could also take the legalistic approach, toss away the spirit of the
requirement in favor of the letter. It's the Gotcha approach to higher
education. You might shrink the spacing between lines or even the spacing
between characters to create at least the appearance of brevity, presuming
his or her prescriptions were vague enough to allow wiggle room. And maybe
there is a way to argue that the 2 page requirement did not so clearly
specify that only one side of the page was to be used. Narrower margins on
all four sides of the paper could be the basis for a free speech argument.
After all, you worked very hard on all those words, even the excess ones.

(Warning: Trying this on a hapless proff might be somewhat amusing. Should
your clever arguments get you through law school, trying to sidestep a page
limit with such shenanigans in a court of law could land you in some serious
trouble.)

"cdedrick" wrote in message
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How do you shrink a document to make it fit? I have a 2 page paper due
and
it comes out to be 2.25 pages. Without reducing the font size is there a
simple way to reduce the document to 2 pages?

Thanks