Microsoft Forms long answers cap at 4,000 characters

When helping someone submit a long grant or application section through a Microsoft Forms long-answer field, check the length first: those text boxes hold at most 4,000 characters, so a detailed budget justification (often 10,000+ characters) gets silently truncated if pasted. If the form offers a 'separate PDF' option, take it. A fast way to produce a clean PDF from extracted docx text is to wrap paragraphs in simple HTML (headings for numbered groups, bullets after 'What it is' leads) and print it with headless Chrome: --headless=new --no-pdf-header-footer --print-to-pdf=out.pdf file://in.html. Then verify every section heading survived with pdftotext.