<p>Thank you, @Heycow! It worked for me :D</p>
<p>Essay formatting</p>
<p>Currently, paragraph breaks for your Common App personal essay will appear in the text box or the print preview of your application.</p>
<p>Bold, underline, and italics will always carry over to Print Preview. Extra spaces will be removed automatically when you click continue. This means that you will not be able to indent your paragraphs. Colleges are aware of this formatting and take it into consideration when viewing your essay.</p>
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<p>Extra spaces will be removed. Meaning no formatting in common app. can someone confirm this</p>
<p>You can still have paragraph breaks but not indents</p>
<p>I don’t know if admission officers view essay online or they print out and then read. The reason I’m asking is when I print out pdf document , it seems small. I tried to nake the font size 12, 14 in my word document but when I copied that in CA, the Pdf printout still looks the same. Is there a way to make font size big so it is easy to read?</p>
<p>There is no way to change font size in common app. All the essays from every applicants will be in the same font. Most adcoms will be reading online and not printing, but it’s easy enough to zoom in to view if the print is too small. Don’t worry about changing font to improve readability.</p>
<p>Italics and bold fonts get transferred over in CA. Should you italicize internal dialogue? Conversations with others on a new line? Make quotes bold faced? or it is not necessary since the admission officers know the limitations of CA formatting anyway.</p>
<p>I don’t know whether the font problems are fixed, but a month ago when our D submitted, the italicized and bolded fonts were possible but did not look good. They overlapped adjacent lines making it more difficult to read. When you get to the preview stage, see what you think of the way it looks. Our D opted to avoid italics and used bold sparingly and only in the Additional Info section.</p>
<p>I found it works fine if you copy and paste from Google Doc, though all formatting are lost (font size, indention).</p>
<p>I found it works fine if you copy and paste from Google Doc, though all formatting are lost (font size, indention).****</p>
<p>Did you mean to say Paragraph break works fine from google doc. All the other formatting doesn’t work right? There is no way to get font size, indentation right? </p>
<p>So looks like the only formatting one might be have is, Bold, italics, paragraph breaks. No other formatting would work. Right?</p>
<p>^ Collegebound1111. You are correct. Paragraph break works fine from google doc. All the other formatting doesn’t work. After copying, you can reset bold, italics, etc, but no indentation.</p>
<p>Son’s essay formatting is fine, but the information that he has written in the Additional Info section runs into the footer, changes font and is completely illegible for 3 or 4 lines.</p>
<p>CommApp says this is a known problem and they’re working a fix.</p>
<p>In the meantime… time is passing. Does he submit as-is or…?</p>
<p>Anyone found a solution to this?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>To solve the Additional Info format problem, you can add a small punctuation mark on each line to create space between paragraphs until the text rolls over to the next page. Like this:
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Then you continue on the next page with your next paragraph.</p>
<p>I will try that. Thx for the prompt reply.</p>