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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.
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- Word 2010: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/insert-or-create-footnotes-and-endnotes-HA101854833.aspx?CTT=1
- These instructions also apply to Word 2007
- Word 2011: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/mac-word-help/add-or-change-footnotes-or-endnotes-HA102929529.aspx?CTT=1
- Word 2013: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/add-footnotes-and-endnotes-HA102809783.aspx?CTT=1
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Section Breaks
If you are saving your entire thesis or dissertation as one document, you will need to use section or page breaks to allow you to format the first page of each chapter properly. Information about this feature can be found at the following links:
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You can follow the instructions at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/number-pages-differently-in-different-sections-HA101832542.aspx?CTT=1 to number the pages for each section of the document. Remember to use the "different first page" option!
Miscellaneous Tips
- 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
Using PDF-XChange Editor
To Send a Reader Part of Your Paper
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