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The most important habit of all is backing up your thesis or dissertation as you write.
Back up your thesis or dissertation files in multiple places. This means storing a copy on the hard drive of your computer, on your Drew Network F: drive, on a "cloud" drive, and on an external piece of hardware such as a USB Flash drive or external hard drive. When you have saved changes to your thesis, save the changed document to all of the backup locations with the same name. It is extra work to create the backups, but it will save you a great deal of time should one file get lost or corrupted!
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Specific Formatting Challenges
Margins
Here are links to Microsoft documentation on manually adjusting your page margins:
- Word 2007: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/change-or-set-page-margins-HP001226492.aspx?CTT=1#BM2
- Word 2010: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/change-page-margins-HA102350538.aspx?CTT=1#_Toc280363143
- Word 2011: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/mac-word-help/change-page-margins-HA102928594.aspx?CTT=1 (expand the section titled "Change the page margins for a whole document")
- Word 2013: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/set-page-margins-HA102850056.aspx?CTT=1#_Toc323305682
Page Numbering
Word has built-in functionality that allows you to create a "different first page", so that you can have a page number bottom center on the first page and top right on the following pages.
Having a different first page in each chapter can be done either by saving different files for each chapter, or by using section breaks. Please contact the University Technology Service Center at 973-408-4357 with any questions about these options.
Microsoft provides the following information on page numbers:
- Word 2007: Start page numbering on page 2 http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/start-page-numbering-on-page-2-HP001227657.aspx?CTT=1
- Word 2010: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/add-or-remove-headers-footers-and-page-numbers-HA010372690.aspx?CTT=1
- If you use different sections in a single document, this page may be useful: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/number-pages-differently-in-different-sections-HA101832542.aspx?CTT=1
- Word 2011: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/mac-word-help/add-or-remove-page-numbers-HA102928583.aspx?CTT=1
- Word 2013: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/add-page-numbers-HA102809692.aspx?CTT=1
Table of Contents
Footnotes
Sections
- Word 2011: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/mac-word-help/insert-delete-or-change-a-section-break-HA102929536.aspx?CTT=1
- Word 2013: Page numbering with section breaks http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/start-page-numbering-later-in-your-document-HA102841427.aspx?CTT=1
Using PDF-XChange Editor
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