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Back up your 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!
Directions for accessing and using the F: Drive.
Directions for using Google Drive
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- If the preference is to see a PDF of specific sections, see below on using PDF-XChange Editor. You can work in one long document in Word, but be sure to back up your work constantly!
- If the preference is to be sent a Word document for different sections, we suggest saving a different file for each chapter.
- This means more files for you to manage, but will make formatting easier. It also helps protect you against losing all of your work in one fell swoop if you do not back up to multiple locations.
We provide templates to use in Microsoft Word with built-in formatting styles. To download these templates and get more information on using them and the styles we've added, please see Drew Dissertation Information and Using Microsoft Word Templates.
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- Use the template provided, with built-in styles
- Be cautious copying and pasting text in Word, even from one Word document to another
- Watch your white space: What you see as empty Word may see as information
- To start a new page, use the Insert>Blank Page option (or CTRL+ENTER on the keyboard) rather than simply hitting Enter until you reach the page you want
- Remember to save constantly as you work, and to save copies of the updated file(s) to all of your backup locations after each time of working on your document
- Don't worry about page numbers until you are mostly finished writing
Using PDF-XChange Editor
PDF-XChange Editor is a software that allows you to work with PDF files. For your purposes here, you can use it to pull certain pages out of a larger PDF file to share with your adviser, or you can use it to merge multiple PDF files into one file for submission.
To use PDf-XChange Editor, you will first need to save your document(s) as a PDF. This option can usually be found in the File>Save As... menu option.
Once your documents are saved as PDF files, you can access PDF-XChange Editor from any computer by logging into CloudPC. If this is your first time using CloudPC, you will need to follow the directions at CloudPC - Software Access from Anywhere to learn how to navigate.
To Send a Reader Part of Your Paper
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