<p>As for an earlier post regarding PDFs, you print it to PDF in some versions of Word... or get Acrobat. </p>
<p>As for word limits, unless you're a brilliant author honored by the Nobel Prize or Pulitzer Prize, etc, it's good to keep it shorter and sweet. </p>
<p>That's the advice that's been given to me by teachers, peers, my counselor, et al.</p>
<p>Think about it, they're the ones who have to sit down and read the damn thing... make it comfortable.</p>
<p>For the record, one essay I submitted, with no word limit was about 700, iirc.</p>
<p>My D's AP teacher gave an assignment which states around 600 words. DD went over 700+(which she already reduced from 1300+). Then after I read the parents forum, she managed to reduce it to very close to 500 words. To be honest, it helped her essay. Every word counts, she choosed her words carefully. The result is her essay is much more precise and well written.
So if your essay is very good then don't worry about it. Otherwise, try to reduce it, it might make a better essay.</p>
<p>i left it normal, it does not say any specifics was thinking 1.5 space but i didnt want to over do on the page amount, it would probably turn out 3 full pages where as right now its 1 and a quarter.</p>
<p>I really don't like how essays' formats get screwed up when you submit them into the text box. I wanted to just upload it, but that would make my essay look longer (it's already really over the word limit), but didn't want to mess up the formatting. All my indentations for paragraphs were gone! All the dashes got replaced by some weird S notation!</p>