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Re: FIRST E-Mail Blast - Chairman's Award
One thing I noticed today in regard to character count. Microsoft Word does not treat a hard return or a character. Take the following text as an example:
Dog
Cat
Word counts that as 6 characters.
From my experimentation, it seems FIRSTawards.org counts a hard return as two characters, a new line character (ASCII 10) and a carriage return (ASCII 13). FIRSTawards.org counts the red text as 10 characters.
So if you double spaced your paragraphs (i.e. hit enter twice between paragraphs), you will end up with 4 extra characters for everyone paragraph, except your last one. For example, Team 1114 has 11 paragraphs in our submission, hence we picked up 40 extra characters upon copying from Microsoft Word.
I hope this helps.
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