Nearly every book requires a table of contents (TOC) and so do many documents. Word allows you to create a TOC automatically, as long as you have previously applied heading styles or outline levels to all the headings...
Formal documents need a List of Figures and a List of Tables, in which the captions are exactly the same as the captions in the text and the page numbers are accurate, It is very difficult and time consuming to create...
Publishers and institutions usually require front matter of their books or documents to have Roman page numbers {i, ii, iii) and the main body to have Arabic page numbers that start at 1. This formatting tip tells you...
Clients have usually started creating their document with a Word version that did not have themes or they have manually applied their institution's required font, ie Times New Roman or Arial. You therefore need to...
Go to the title page. In the Layout tab > Page Setup group (far left), select the dialog box launcher (the arrow pointing diagonally down-right in the bottom right corner). The Page Setup dialog box pops up. In the...
Press F12. The Save As dialog box pops up. In the dark area at the bottom, on the left, you will see the File Name label. In the textbox, enter a name for your template. Below the File Name is the File Type. Select...
The benefits of formatting to editors Formatting “makes it much easier for me to work with the document, it looks professional, and it is much easier for the examiners to navigate” (Richard Steele, in a...
(The instructions are intended as guidelines and apply to Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2403 Build 16.0.17425.20124 64-bit) for Windows 11. Details may differ slightly for other versions.) In...
Formatting makes it much easier for me to work with the document, it looks professional, and it is much easier for the examiners to navigate (Richard Steele, 2023). In my last blog, I shared my 14-step formatting...
Richard Steele said in his recent blog about his take on academic referencing: Formatting “makes it much easier for me to work with the document, it looks professional, and it is much easier for the examiners to...
