How to create your thesis with Word 2007 and 2010: Step 9 - How to Create an Automatic Table of Content

Creating an automatic table of contents for a structured document like thesis in Word 2007 or 2010 is the most fun to do. It is even more enjoyable if you have numbered your chapter and sub chapter headings with multilevel list numbering. I recommend you to see previous articles on how to do this. In the previous articles, we have created a document called Academic Document 4 which has applied Heading styles to chapters and sub chapters and we have also numbered them appropriately. We have also...

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How to create your thesis with Word 2007 and 2010: Step 3 - Understanding the Use of Heading and Other Styles in Word 2007 or 2010

As mentioned in other post that when you are creating your thesis or other documents with Word 2007 or 2010, it is highly recommended to expand your style panel to see all styles available in that document. You may also want to expand the style panel when you are reading a Word 2007 or 2010 document created by other people to see whether they have applied styling system to that document or not. A document created with a good styling will have a very consistent look throughout that document and in the style panel you can see all the styles being...

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Activating Style Panel

Activating Style panel is a good practice and recommended by many Word 2007 and 2010 professionals as it is very helpful during your Word 2010 creation. In Style panel, you can see all the styles available in the existing opened document. Default styles brought by Word or styles you have created yourself will all be displayed. So, when you want apply a particular style, you just need to place your mouse cursor on the text to which you want apply the style and click the style name in your Style...

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How to create your thesis with Word 2007 and 2010: Step 2 - Thesis Structure

Undergraduate and graduate thesis or dissertation is a type of academic document with certain structure. From front section to the end, you will find in a thesis or dissertation front pages which consist of at least Thesis Title, Acknowledgment, Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures, and List of Appendices. Then there is a thesis body which consist of chapters, including Introduction, Literature Reviews, Methodology, Results and Discussion, and Conclusion. After that, a thesis ends with closing pages which include List of References...

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How to create your thesis with Word 2007 and 2010: Step 1 - Introduction

I have decided to make a series of articles that will ease people on how to create a graduate thesis with Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010. This is intended primarily to undegraduate or graduate students who are currently writing their thesis or are preparing to do that. Hopely, these articles will provide help them, so that thesis creation becomes more enjoyable and less painful. But, as you go along with these articles on how to use Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010 to create a thesis, you should see that the principles also apply to other documents having...

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