You can also do a find and replace for periods and replace them with a period 2/3 font sizes bigger. Nearly undetectable unless you're looking for it and it turned many an 8 page paper to a 10 page paper for me in college.
Increasing the period makes little sense as it will make it harder to use styles and will be messy if you need to edit the text later.
These changes need to be global, not local, and any software has several fine-tuning adjustments that can be made to change the "volume" of text.
Increase the space between lines, between paragraphs, between characters and between words. Increase the space above and below headings and move headings that are on the bottom of the page to the next page when possible. Increase the space between bullet points and increase the tabbing. Use a wider font if possible. Make images and charts bigger and make their padding bigger. Increase the margins of the document, too. And now you can ask an AI to make your text longer.
My teachers insisted on 12-point Times New Roman, double spaced, with 1 inch margins.
12.5-point 2.1 spacing, 1.1 inch margins was undetectable. The other trick was they didn't care if you used end notes or footnotes, and footnotes were better for length.
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u/Wonderful-Hall-7929 14d ago
Did the same but the other way around: Increased the font from 10 to 12 because "That's too short!".