These will help you to organise and produce a long document with a professional consistent appearance.Ĭreating and Modifying Styles A style is a collection of formatting settings brought together for ease of use. Writing Dissertations on a PC Dissertations and theses may contain many chapters and hundreds of pages. It is of vital importance when submitting your final document for marking that it looks professional, with a consistent appearance. This handbook will show you how to use: Generating a table of content If the styles were created and used appropriately, generating the table of content is one of the final steps to create a professional looking document. Creating a bibliography If the citations are used the bibliography can be created automatically at the end of the document. Creating and using captions, bookmarks, citations, footnotes and endnotes The use of captions, bookmarks, citations, footnotes and endnotes gives flexibility to modify the document and use different features whilst ensuring consistency of the final document by allowing you to move the text around and keep all the references correct. Save settings and formatting in a template or new document A template or a document will save the styles and the page formatting so they can be used as a base for your document. Any existing text can simply be copied into this new file and the styles can be applied to it. Format the pages Set the formatting of the documents pages – margins, headers, footers and page numbers.
Create and modifying styles The styles will save the formatting of the documents text, its section headings and so on. These settings can then be applied with one click. After you have gathered all the necessary information, think about what styles you are going to need and what formatting you want for each style. Finding out the requirements Before you start writing your dissertation you should check what the regulations and requirements are within the University and your programme, e.g. what font size, line spacing and justification should be used in your document. © ICT Skills Glasgow Caledonian University If you have any comments or queries, please contact the ICT Skills Unit: Room: NH002, ground floor, Students’ Association building Email: Tel: 0141 273 1373 2
Reference to the ICT Skills booklets on Word Processing and Integration may be useful to help you complete this booklet. Tasks This icon denotes a task which should be carried out to help you gain the skills required. Note: This icon denotes important information – read it carefully. Word Processing for dissertations Contents: Steps in Writing a Dissertation . 3 Writing Dissertations on a PC . 4 Creating and Modifying Styles . 5 Templates . 12 Captions . 15 Bookmarks . 17 Referencing a Figure, Bookmark, Table or Equation . 18 Citations . 19 Inserting Bibliography . 20 Page Numbering . 21 Section Breaks and Different Formatting . 21 Show/Hide Formatting Marks . 22 Document Map . 23 Footnotes and Endnotes . 23 Table of Contents (TOC) . 24 Table of Figures . 26 Printing the Final Document . 27 These notes do not explain every feature of the application therefore you are expected to make use of the Help facility. Word Processing for Dissertation Microsoft Office 2007