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My thesis should NOT exceed 30 pages and the nature of my research compels me to go beyond that limit. So I thought would it be the same number of pages IF I convert my latex document into MS Word? In others words, If I build them with the same margins and font size does this necessarily mean they would have the same number of pages 40 pages of LATEX=40 pages of MS Word? It seems stupid but I am desperate.

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    To answer the question in the title: No, if they have the exact same output they have the exact same output.
    – Skillmon
    Jan 7, 2022 at 17:09
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    More serious: If you're currently at 40 pages I doubt it'll be possible to reduce that to 30 without changing margins and/or font sizes. But all in all I'd think that TeX gives you more degrees of freedom to reduce page sizes, after all TeX optimizes paragraphs according to badnesses, and Word simply uses a first-fit model.
    – Skillmon
    Jan 7, 2022 at 17:11
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    In addition to what Skillmon wrote: With pdfTeX/LuaTeX/XeTeX-based engines you have microtype-features like character protrusion, font expansion, adjustment of interword-spacing etc which could reduce the amount of space needed for printing the text. I don't know if nowadays MS Word has such features
    – Ulrich Diez
    Jan 7, 2022 at 17:16
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    @AemTaibi You possibly are too close to the content of your written thesis, and thus got into the thought «all the things I still need to describe (which then let me pass beyond 30 pages for a third)». If possible, leave writing on the desk for a day or two, and then read it fresh minded again; this may ease to simplify the description (thus, reduction of the words needed).
    – Buttonwood
    Jan 7, 2022 at 17:25
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    Joke: Just switch page-numbering from decimal to hexadecimal - 40(dec) = 28(hex) < 30(hex) . ;-)
    – Ulrich Diez
    Jan 7, 2022 at 18:18

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