Creating a quote paragraph style

Another type of paragraph found in academic documents is quote paragraph. It is especially true for social sciences where an author quotes a lot of other works to support his writing. Quote paragraph is not so common in natural sciences. In either case, appropriate and sufficient accreditations have to be given to quoted resources. If you make a lot of quotation, it is recommended that you make a special paragraph style of its own. This is to differentiate it with your general paragraph that also has its own style. When you have created the quote...

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Creating a general paragraph style

What is meant to be a general paragraph style. In your academic documents such as thesis or other research reports, you will have a paragraph style that is the most often used throughout your document. Let us call this as a general paragraph and create a style for it. It is very convenient to create a general paragraph style to change the appearance of your paragraph and not directly change the paragraph texts from within the text area. Before you do creating a general paragraph style, please check...

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How to create your thesis with Word 2007 and 2010: Step 8 - Separate Chapters with Section Break

So far we have learned through several steps on how to create your thesis or similar structured documents with Word 2007 or 2010. In the last steps (Step 7 - How to give number to your chapters and sub-chapters) we have applied multilevel list numbering to chapter and sub chapter headings. In that step we have produced Academic Document 3 that has been given a structure according to that used by many academic documents. Academic Document 3 has Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3. If you want to...

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Inserting more tables and updating list of tables accordingly

When you create your tables and caption them using the Caption facility provided by Microsoft Word, the table names will numbered authomatically. You can then create your List of Tables more conveniently. You can always do this during your academic documents writing, without a need to await until it has been finished. What happen if you insert a table in middle section? For exampe, you have created a 70 pages document with many orderly numbered tables already in it. If you insert a new table in earlier pages, than the Caption facility will redo...

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How to create your thesis with Word 2007 and 2010: Step 7 - Heading Numbering in Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010

Before we go to any details about heading numbering in Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010, let me tell first that in previous posts we have learned how to apply Heading styles for chapters in Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010 and how to modify them. We first learn from scratch in the process of Creating Thesis with Word 2007 or 2010 on how to use default Heading Styles (Step 4), How to Modify Heading 1 (Step 5), and then How to Modify Heading 2 and 3 (Heading 6). Resulting from these learning steps, we have...

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How to create your thesis with Word 2007 and 2010: Step 6 - How to Modify Heading 2 and 3 in Word 2007 or 2010

In a previous post entitled How to Create Chapter Heading (Step 4 of How to Create a Thesis with Word 2007 or 2010), we have learned how to apply default Heading styles available in Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010. And we have created Academic Document, a Word 2007 or 2010 document showing the result of the process of using the default Heading Style. Because the default Heading styles are unlikely to be applied as such in most academic documents, we then have learned How to Modify Heading 1 (Step 5...

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How to create your thesis with Word 2007 and 2010: Step 5 - How to Modify Chapter Heading 1

In the previous post on How to create chapter heading (Step 4 in Creating Your Thesis with Word 2007 or 2010), we have learned how to apply Heading styles to major chapters most likely found in your thesis or other academic documents. This includes Introduction, Literature Reviews, and soon. We have created a document called Academic Document as a learning tools. But, so fa we have applied Heading styles that are provided by default in Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010. It is unlikely that academic documents...

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How to create your thesis with Word 2007 and 2010: Step 4 - How to Create Your Thesis Chapter Heading

We will now start learning how to create a thesis with Word 2007 or 2010. This post will tell how you to create your chapter names using Heading facility provided by Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010. For this time, we will use the default Heading style available in Microsoft Office Word 2007 or 2010. With the Heading style applied to all chapters, your chapter will look very consistent throughout the document. Also, the use of Heading will help you much in the creation of your academic documents because...

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Introduction to use of Heading styles

Academic documents such as thesis, dissertation, research reports, research proposal, etc. are organised into chapters, sub-chapters, and sub sub-chapters. The best way to create names of chapters, sub chapters and sub sub-chapters for your documents is to use Heading styles provided by Microsoft Word. In Microsoft Word 2007, you can see Heading style as well as other styles under Home menu and Style ribbon. By clicking the small arrow on the bottom right corner of the Style ribbon, you will have...

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How to create a List of Tables

A List of Tables is created using Insert Table of Figures (part of Caption ribbon) under Reference menu. This list is placed under a title of List of Tables and is a part of front pages. When you create a List of Table using the Insert Table of Figure, the list is produced by extracting whatever you put when you created your table name using Caption. It will include page numbers and have a consistent look: Here is how to insert a List of Tables Position your cursor where you want put the List of...

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How to use Caption for your tables

CWhen you create a table in your academic documents, you will give that table a name which is usually positioned above the table. Table names should have consistent formattings and stylings throughout the document, and it is done with caption facility provided by Word. Not only will the caption give your tables a consistent look, but it will also enable you to later create a List of Tables with only a few clicks. Here is how to use Caption Type in your table name which is in academic documents...

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