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Formatting Your Paper with Microsoft Word

The following set of tutorials will walk you through some of the basics of formatting your paper in Microsoft Word for Windows (this is the version of Word on most University computers.) For other versions of Word the tools and principals still apply, however the app interface may look different.

Word for Windows - Formatting Paper Size, Type Style, and Margins
Learn how to set up the basics for your manuscript including, paper size, margins, font style, font size, line spacing, and paragraph indentations.
Word for Windows - Heading Styles
Create headings for your paper to match formatting styles, to make Table of Contents, and to make a good professional looking paper.
Word for Windows - Page Number Basics
In this tutorial you'll learn how to:(1) insert page numbers and (2) start your page numbering on page 2.
Word for Windows - Advanced Page Numbers
In this tutorial you'll learn how to insert different page number styles in different sections of your paper.
Word for Windows - Adding in and Formatting an Image
Learn how to add in and format and image so that it looks good in your paper and is ADA compliant
Word for Windows - Adding Captions to Images and Tables
A tutorial on adding captions to images and tables to help your papers look professional and to easily add a List of Figures and a List of Tables
Word for Windows - Creating a Table of Contents
Learn how easily create a Table of Contents by using Headings.

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Reviewing the Heading Styles tutorial is recommended before creating a Table of Contents
Word for Windows - Creating a List of Figures or a List of Tables
Create a List of Figures or a List of Tables from image and table captions.

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Reviewing the Adding Captions to Images and Tables tutorial is recommended before creating a List of Tables or a List of Figures

Word for Mac

Word for Mac - Formatting Paper Size, Type Style, and Margins
Learn how to set up the basics for your manuscript including: paper size, margins, font style, font, size, line spacing and paragraph indentations.
Word for Mac - Heading Styles
Create headings for your paper to match formatting styles, to make Table of Contents, and to make a good professional looking paper.
Word for Mac - Basic Page Numbers
In this tutorial you'll learn how to (1) add page numbers to your document and (2) start your page numbering on page 2.
Word for Mac - Advanced Page Numbers
In this tutorial you'll learn about adding (1) page breaks; (2) section breaks; (3) using breaks to have to different page number styles.
Word for Mac - Adding in and formatting an Image
Learn how to add in and format and image sot that it looks good in your paper and is ADA compliant.
Word for Mac - Adding Captions to Images and Tables
Learn how to insert captions for images and tables. Later you can use those captions to create a List of Figures and a List of Tables
Word for Mac - Creating a Table of Contents
Learn how to easily create a Table of Contents by using headings

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You may want to review our tutorial on Heading Styles before going through this tutorial
Word for Mac - Creating a List of Figures or a List of Tables
Learn to create a List of Figures or a List of Tables from image and table captions.