It is important to use styles in all documents to carry out formatting of paragraphs of different types. The style assigned to the current paragraph is indicated in the Formatting toolbar near the top of your window.Ī document can contain many different styles, but most documents will have paragraphs of “Normal” style, which are standard paragraphs, and one to three levels of headings (Heading 1, Heading 2 and Heading 3). If a style is edited, and any of its attributes changed, the formatting of any paragraph to which that style was assigned will immediately change to reflect the modifications. A style is a collection of formatting that details the font, font size, font highlighting (bold, italics, etc.), paragraph alignment, paragraph indents, paragraph spacing, and so on. Every paragraph in Word has a “Style” associated with it. The best way to ensure consistent formatting in a Word document is by consistent use of Word styles. Inserting landscape pages (including related exercises) Page numbering/Headers and footers (including related exercises) Generating a list of tables and a list of figures (including related exercises) Outline view (including related exercise)Ĭreating a table of contents (including related exercise) Numbering headings (List style and Legal style numbering) (including related exercises)ĭocument templates (including accessing and using the UW Word Thesis Template)Ĭaptioning and numbering of tables and figures (including related exercises)įootnotes and endnotes (including related exercise)Įndnotes with square brackets (.)Ĭross references (including related exercise) Modifying a heading style (including a related exercise) Modifying styles (including a related exercise)Ĭreating a new style (including a related exercise)
Information on using the UWaterloo Thesis template. It is more difficult to maintain a standard "look and feel" throughout a long document like a thesis. Theses are often more structured, contain several levels of headings, and may have numbered headings.
Theses and other long documents (books, manuals, reports) can present challenges that shorter documents wouldn't.