Make a LaTeX document look like it was written in Microsoft Word [duplicate]

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Making a LaTeX document appear as though it were typeset in MS Word

I know this is a travesty in the world of TeX, and an affront to all decent TeX-believing people out there...

But the graders for one of my research papers insist that it be written with 12pt Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins, double-spaced (the Microsoft Word defaults). Is there a template I can use for LaTeX to fulfill these specifications?

(This is the exact opposite of Make MS Word document look like it has been typeset in LaTeX.)

Answer 1

You can do this al least in two ways; using the wordlike package:

\PassOptionsToPackage{margin=1in}{geometry}
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{wordlike}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate filler text
\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-8]

\end{document}

or, without wordlike, you can use something like this:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[scaled=.90]{helvet}
\usepackage{courier}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate filler text
\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-8]

\end{document}

The geometry package lets you customize the page layout.

The setspace package allows you to achieve double spacing.

The lines

\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[scaled=.90]{helvet}
\usepackage{courier}

give you the combination Times/Helvetica/Courier.