Common App Essay Print Review Glitch

mathteacher
Sat, 08 Nov 2014 05:30:05 +0000

I haven’t seen your problem. But in helping a student cut and paste from MS Word, I noticed that all the paragraphing disappeared. The last sentence of a paragraph would run together with the first sentence of the next with not even a space between them. We had to go through and re-type the “enter” key to get the paragraph break. In typewriter lingo, it’s called a “hard carriage return” and evidently there’s a coding mismatch between Word and the Common App software.