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Master's Thesis/Project Formatting Library Guidelines

Formatting rules for Thesis/Project Submissions

Word Doc. formatting tutorials

 

This tutorial video provides a comprehensive overview of formatting rules and guidelines for Microsoft Word documents. It is designed to assist you in resolving formatting issues and errors that may arise. The video covers various topics, including adjusting margins, formatting headings and subheadings, adjusting manually the lists of tables and figures, managing the landscape-oriented figures, formatting the references, structuring chapters, and addressing common concerns related to copying and pasting text.

Tutorials on Formatting

The following links tutorials will help you with your Word Document. For example, if you are having trouble with your table of content, page number, landscape pages and pasting your document to the template.

 

CPP offers free access to LinkedIn Learning tutorials for students and faculty. Log on to myCPP then LinkedIn Learning. 

Search for the topic, such as “Microsoft word table of contents” (almost 8,000 results) or “Microsoft word footnotes” (over 200 results) or “Microsoft word header” (over 1,700 results).

Library format Reviewer Marilu Salcedo recommends two videos to watch to learn how to use Microsoft Word. 

WORD Quick Tips This video teaches all the tricks that students could use and learn from to help them with their format paper. It provides teachings on page numbers, Line spacing, page section formatting and more.

 The Best of Word Weekly Tips This video is 8 hrs. long, but each section of videos teaches tips on what some students have encountered, and it teaches them how to apply it in their paper. 

 

Portrait page numbers on a Landscape page

Microsoft Word Landscape Page Numbers Mississippi State University Library

 

How To add different page number for different sections with

PAGE BREAK 2017, tutorial from How to pedia

How to insert different page numbers in Word. sunsopheary

 

Formatting tutorial on tables and figures list and captions

Tables and Figures Lists and Captions. By FAUGraduateCollege

Word: how to insert a list of tables or figures. By Research Masterminds

 

How to delete a Blank page from Word Document

How to delete blank pages in Microsoft Word 2016. By Raymond Beckham

 

How to delete Page Break in MS Word document 

How to remove section breaks in a Word Document by eHowTech

 

NEW Versions of Office/Word 365 by default it now compresses images. How to remove the default in order for your images not to look pixelated, be sure to go into File > Options > Advanced > Image Size and Quality > CHECK BOX Do not compress images in file. See here for details: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-picture-compression-81a6b603-0266-4451-b08e-fc1bf58da658

 

Need assistance on Citation source? The following are helpful links.

Purdue Writing Lab (APA, MLA, Chicago)

Duke University Citing Sources  (APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian)

Zotero (free downloadable citation management system)

BibMe - The Online Writing Center

 

Other sites to help you organize and cite bibliographic information:

Citation Machine   (APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian)

EasyBib Writing Center  (APA, MLA, Chicago)

Mendeley Reference Manager (another free downloadable citation manager)

APA Style (APA citation)