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I would change the sentence to read thus:
After the report has been submitted, desired or needed changes may be made only to font size, margins, and line spacing.
I don't think an average reader would wonder whether this sentence meant all three must be if any one is changed, or only one of the three may changed. If the latter were the case, surely ...
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Does this sentence imply that changes..made?
No.
Does this sentence mean that changes..made?
Maybe.
The person who wrote the sentence obviously did not want to tie the three types of changes together and that is what the reader will understand if he doesn't take the semantics too seriously. But the sentence is ambiguous, no doubt.
So what can we do ...
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There are some slang terms I can think of: zinger, for instance. "She hit him with a zinger."
Not for very formal writing, of course. Another would be "put down," again, not formal at all. But both imply that the other speaker is right and the original speaker is wrong. "Comeback" is a third, but doesn't imply the correctness of the second speaker ...
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