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Page 1: Writing a Thesis using Microsoft Word...Writing a Thesis using Microsoft Word • Microsoft Word is the most commonly used text editor but designed predominantly for Business • Often

Writing a Thesis using Microsoft Word 

Graduate Research School Seminar SeriesJuly 2016

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Writing a Thesis using Microsoft Word 

• Microsoft Word is the most commonly used text editor but designed predominantly for Business

• Often users use only fraction of capacity of program whilst simultaneously being frustrated by default functions

• Improve your use of Word – attend a course, read a manual, Google

• Talk to other students ‐ collectively large amount of knowledge (functions and ‘tricks’)

• Today – screenshots from MS Word 2011 

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Writing a Thesis using Microsoft Word 

• Customising the interface & functions

• Creating a template

• Working with a document

• Editing and sharing documents

• Alternate text editors

• Resources

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Take the time to familiarise your self with Word interface.

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You can customise the interface & functions

• Turn off annoying autoformat functions

• autoformat as you type

• Turn off autocorrect functions and/or adapt them to your needs

• correct your repeated typing errors• add terms to your dictionary• create your own text shortcuts

• Set language default

• Autosave and autorecover if you lose a document

• See formatting marks in your document

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What auto functions drive you crazy? Turn them off using Options menu.

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Customise some auto functions to save time ‐ Autocorrect your typos.

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Customise the dictionary with your research terms.

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Develop your own shorthand.

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Is your spellchecker suggesting US English rather than AUS or UK English? Change your default setting.

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Want to know what your grammar checker is checking?

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Want to declutter your screen? Customise or hide the ribbon.

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Don’t lose any text ‐ autosave. Lost your document before saving? Autorecover.

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Want to speed up? Know the keyboard shortcuts / create your own.

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Create a Template (possibly……)

• Set your page layout (margins, orientation, page numbering)

• Set what your text looks like (styles)

– Font (Size & Type face – consider serif fonts Palatino, Times New Roman)– Headings– Spacing– Levels

• Become familiar with outline view

• Consider using a Master Document if a chapter(s) is large

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Set your margins.

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Change page orientation with section breaks.What to keep the position of your page numbers consistent? See https://uknowit.uwgb.edu/page.php?id=26346

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Number your pages – able to choose format & start number for each section.

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Spend some time to learn about styles – important for creating TOC & master documents.

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Another component of styles is level. Allocate a level to each style.

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Outline view will help with changing styles, creating master documents & editing flow.

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Save your customised formatted version as a template.

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If your thesis file is large create a Master document with subdocuments.

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Working with your document

• Create and update a table of contents (based on styles)

• Insert images (insert, compress)

• Create captions and cross‐reference (for both figures and tables)

• Page layouts & section breaks (portrait–landscape–portrait changes) 

• Insert footnotes

• In text citations, reference lists, bibliographies should be managed using referencing software– UWA supports Endnote but common alternatives include Mendeley, 

Zotero, OneNote (consider what is common in your discipline / what your supervisor supports)

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Automatically generate a table of contents (TOC). Update as required.

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Insert an image. Compress the image?

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Create a caption when labelling figures and tables.

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You can generate a list of figures and a list of tables from your captions.

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Link you in text reference to a figure to the figure caption.

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Create footnotes using Insert Footnote.

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Editing and sharing a Document

• Zoom out to preview structure

• Track changes

• Add comments

• Compare documents

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Zoom out to check your distribution of text, figures & tables.

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Become familiar with comments, track changes and compare documents.

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Alternate text editors 

• LaTeX

• Scrivener

• Freeware: Vim / Geany

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Resources

• Doug Lowe. 2010. Word 2010 All‐in‐One For Dummies. UWA Library ‐ Online access.

• Microsoft Word 2010 Digital Classroom. UWA Library ‐ Online access.

• Jacques Raubenheimer. 2013. Doing your dissertation with Microsoft® Word: A comprehensive guide to using Microsoft® Word for academic writing Updated for Microsoft® Word 2007 & Microsoft Word® 2010. Available from Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Doing‐your‐dissertation‐Microsoft%C2%AE‐Word/dp/0868868140

• Clive Huggan. Bend Word to Your Will (Mac users) http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html

• Microsoft Word help tutorials

• Youtube & Google – such as Subversive Copy Editor Blog  http://www.subversivecopyeditor.com/blog/ and Ms Word Know How ‐ a Place for Coolest Word Tips and Tricks…… https://wordknowhow.wordpress.com/

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