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Tips & Tricks For Writing Your Thesis in MS WORD: Presented by Shelly Baumann, Coordinator

The document provides tips and tricks for formatting a thesis in Microsoft Word, including inserting figures and tables, adding headers and page numbers, setting up sections and page breaks, and generating a table of contents. It highlights key differences between Word 2003 and 2007 and gives guidance on tasks like adjusting margins, formatting page numbers, and dealing with widows and orphans. Resources are also provided for troubleshooting common thesis formatting issues.

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Tips & Tricks For Writing Your Thesis in MS WORD: Presented by Shelly Baumann, Coordinator

The document provides tips and tricks for formatting a thesis in Microsoft Word, including inserting figures and tables, adding headers and page numbers, setting up sections and page breaks, and generating a table of contents. It highlights key differences between Word 2003 and 2007 and gives guidance on tasks like adjusting margins, formatting page numbers, and dealing with widows and orphans. Resources are also provided for troubleshooting common thesis formatting issues.

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UAF Graduate School’s

Tips & Tricks for Writing Your


Thesis in MS WORD
Presented by
Shelly Baumann, Coordinator
202 Eielson Building (907) 474-7464
PO BOX 757560 (907) 474-1984 fax
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7560 [email protected]
http://www.uaf.edu/gradsch/
General Thesis Information
 Thesis Formatting Workbook

 Thesis Formatting Workshop

 Thesis Submittal Form:


 Master’s
 PhD
Microsoft Office
2003 vs. 2007
 interface is very Program 2003 Ext. 2007 Ext
different and takes a
bit of getting use to. Word .doc .docx
 Files saved with the
default setting in Excel .xls .xlsx
Office 2007
CANNOT be opened Power .ppt .pptx
by earlier versions. Point
 To change go to Access .mdb .accdb
tools, options, &
save tab
About the Office
Fluent User Interface Navigate the Office Fluent User Interface

The Microsoft Office Fluent user File Menu Quick Access


Click the Microsoft Toolbar (QAT) Tabs Dialog Boxes The Ribbon
interface (UI) has been completely Click tabs to Click to open Find tools here that
redesigned. The old menus and Office system Access common
button to see file commands on this access tools and dialog boxes. used to be in menus
toolbars are now integrated into a commands. and toolbars.
commands. customizable
band called the “Ribbon,” making it
toolbar.
easier to find the tools you need
and create the results you want.
Topics in this guide include:
• Navigate the New UI
• Understand the Quick Access
Toolbar
• Minimize the Ribbon
• Understand the File Menu and
New File Format
• Use Microsoft Office System
Help

Lists and Galleries


Click or to
access lists or
galleries.

Groups
Mini Toolbar View Switching Zoom Controls
Use related tools and
Use options on the Switch view for a Zoom in or out
commands grouped
toolbar that appears program. Different using the slider, or
onto different tabs.
when you select text on programs have different click the + and –
the page. views available. buttons.
Revealing Your Formatting

Find this button


on your toolbar if
you are a Mac
user
Page Setup: Mac
 MARGINS
Page Setup: Windows
 MARGINS
Header/Footer: Mac

Format page numbers


Header/Footer: Windows
Page Numbers: Windows
Page Numbers: Mac
 Click on INSERT in
the menu bar

 Then click on PAGE


NUMBERS
Formatting Page Numbers
Section and page breaks
Section and page Breaks
 Use page breaks when
format stays the same
 Use section breaks (next
page) when format
changes or between
chapters
 For example, use for
landscape table or figures!
That page will be
landscape and the rest
portrait.
Widows & Orphans
Figures: Inserting from File
Formatting Figures: Mac
Formatting Figures : Windows
 Right click on the picture
Tables
Tables: Inserting & Deleting
Columns & Rows
Table of Contents: Mac
 Leader Dots
Table of Contents: Windows
Leader Dots
 Go to Format and
Tabs
 6 for UAF
requirements rather
than 6.5
Resources
 Writing Your Dissertation with Microsoft
Word: A step by step guide by Vincent
Kiernan
When all else fails
 If the table of contents will not cooperate after
the last time you refresh insert leader dots with
the tab.
 If a table or figure will not print with the
document print it separate.
 If on a page you can not get the page number
to align according to the margin requirements,
print up the page, measure, move number, and
repeat until it works.

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