Reformatting your article to 60 or 65 characters per line and the word processor won’t cooperate?  Here’s how.

Let’s assume that you are new to Internet marketing and you choose article writing as your primary means of generating traffic. To make your article pretty you choose some exotic beautiful font, pleasing to the eye.  You prepare your article with great care only to discover when you submit your article that the publisher insists the article be 65 characters per line.

If you have ever tried to adjust the margins and manually count the characters in each line to meet the required 65 characters per line, you have experienced total frustration.  If you use MS Word, most of the fonts are what are called proportional fonts.  Their widths vary with the length of the line.  So no matter how you adjust the margins to the longest line and count out your 65 characters per line, the proportional font characters per line just keep on changing.  It’s a nightmare.

There’s a simple solution. Use a font that does not vary with the line length.  Monospace fonts, also known as fixed width fonts do not vary.  All characters are of a fixed width. For example, a font size of 10 equates to 12 characters per inch, a font size of 12 equates to 10 characters per inch. True Type Courier New, Consolas, and DejaVu Sans Mono are three examples of Monospace fonts.  You can search the Internet for others.

Here’s is a simple solution to formatting your text with Monospace font. You can create your document in whatever font your eye finds pleasing. Copy it and paste it to a new document using a 12 point Monospace font.  On an 8.5×11.5 sheet your margins are preset to allow 6.5 inches per line of text.  A Monospace font of 12 points equals 10 characters per inch.  Ten characters per inch times 6.5 inches equal 65 characters per line.  Voila!  You’re done. By simply changing the margins to a 6 inch line you now have 60 characters per line.

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Article Writing – Adjusting Characters per Line – A Useful Tip©
by C. A. Perez