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Microsoft Word

William

Klingelsmith

Breaks

Word has the ability to create two types of breaks

Page Breaks – Useful for breaking the text for better document flow

Section Breaks – Serve as indicators for different sections

Useful for multi-document Word files

Scientific Journals

Table of Content Generation

The Table of Content generator in word is based off of the correct use of styles

The

ToC

button is located on the References tab

There are options to modify which styles are represented in the

ToC

Table of Content Generation

Insert a page break after the title page

On the new blank page, generate a

ToC

Notice that the title of the document “Designing a Web Site” is present at the top level of the

ToC

Modify the

ToC

so that only headings are displayed

Footnotes

Footnotes are used to provide extraneous information about a piece of information in your document

They can either provide further explanation or link to a source where more information can be found

Footnote generation is done through the References tab

Footnotes

In the Consistency section, add a footnote with the following text after the word “locations.”

Kaylene

Durocher, “ABCs of Web Site Consistency,”

Web Site Magazine

7 (2005): 33-34.

In the yellow section of text in the Appropriate Background, add a footnote after the word “resolutions.”

Cheyenne

Kinyon

, “Color, Background, and Themes: Making Wise Decisions,”

Web Guidelines and Conventions Monthly

12 (2005): 166-167.

Quick Parts and Headers/Footers

Quick Parts are variables inside Microsoft Word that hold specific pieces of information such as the document title or author name

By using quick parts, you can modify the contents of said variables once and the changes will be reflected wherever that quick part is used elsewhere in the document

Quick Parts and Headers/Footers

Create a new header

Inside this header we wish to display the name of the document, the author, and the page number.

You may need to change the author name to display the correct name

File Tab -> Document Properties

Captions

When including multimedia elements in your documents, it is always a good idea to provide a brief description about the image/movie

Captions can be introduced by choosing Add Caption in the context menu

Add appropriate captions to the images in the document

Equation Editor

Newer versions of Word can display mathematical formulas in a way which preserves operators and other markup

After the word “formula” in the Availability section add the following formula using the equation editor:

Bibliographies

MS Word can generate Bibliographies or Works Cited pages for you automatically if you maintain your sources in the Source Manager.

Source Manager

Add the following sources

Public, John Q. "Basics of Web Design."

About.com Web Design / HTML

. About.com, 01 Jan. 2001. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://webdesign.about.com/od/webdesigntutorials/a/aa070504.htm>.

Doe, Jane. "Typography Is The Foundation Of Web Design."

Typography Is The Foundation Of Web Design

. Smashing Magazine, 24 July 2012. Web. 15 Nov. 2012. <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/24/one-more-time-typography-is-the-foundation-of-web-design/>.

Bibliographies

To generate bibliographies using information in the source manager, simply use the Bibliography button on the references tab

Using the existing sources, insert a citation to the article on web typography after “Times New Roman” in the Font Faces section