Book description
Research fuels innovation—and with this focused guide to Microsoft Word, you can help increase your team’s collaborative power and effectiveness, and bring new research to life. Writing proposals, reports, journal articles, theses, and other technical documents as a team poses unique challenges, not the least of which is consistent presentation and voice. You must also manage the formatting and accuracy of figures, equations, and citations, and comply with the style rules of external publications. In this book you’ll learn from the authors’ extensive experience managing the authoring and publication of technical content, and gain specific practices and templates you can apply right away.
Focuses on the unique challenges of writing and producing documents in an academic or commercial R&D setting
Demonstrates how to use Microsoft Word to increase the quality of collaborative document preparation—including formatting, editing, citations management, commenting, and version control
Includes downloadable templates that help automate creation of scientific documents
Offers best-practices guidance for writing in teams and writing in the scientific genre
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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Chapter 1. Using templates in Word 2013
- Word 2013, templates, and you
- Why use templates?
- Basic elements of templates
- This is a section heading
- Basics of effective template use
- All about styles
- How to work with templates
- How to create elements in a document
- How to make headings
- How to make figures
- How to make tables
- How to place equations
- How to insert cross-references
- Recap
- Chapter 2. How to design templates
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Chapter 3. How to work with headings
- How to create and cross-reference headings
- How to alter headings
- How to use numbering and multilevel lists
- How to set borders, shading, and special formatting
- How to make headings work with fields
- How to create and format back matter
- Use bookmarks for limited tables of contents
- Common formatting mistakes in headings
- Common stylistic mistakes for headings
- Tips and tricks
- Recap
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Chapter 4. How to work with figures
- How to conceptualize figures
- How to choose a figure layout
- How to create figures with table-based layouts
- How to create inline figure layouts
- How to cross-reference figures
- How to alter figure captions
- Common formatting mistakes in figures
- Common stylistic mistakes in figures
- Tips and tricks for figures
- Recap
- Chapter 5. How to work with tables
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Chapter 6. How to work with equations
- How to create equations in Word 2013
- How to use MathType to create and edit equations
- How to cross-reference equations
- How to alter equations
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Tips and tricks
- Use mathematical bold, italic, and sans serif
- Create equation arrays
- Modify equation alignment and breaking
- Include typographical niceties
- Create prescripts
- Use math context menus
- Use the Math Input Panel
- Use the math graphing calculator
- Interoperate with other programs
- Use and modify math autocorrect
- Insert an equation shortcut
- Keyboard shortcuts in MathType
- Convert equations from MathType to TeX/LaTeX
- Enter TeX or LaTeX directly
- Function names
- Miscellaneous symbols
- Arrows
- Binary and operational symbols
- Accent marks
- Common formatting mistakes for equations
- Common stylistic mistakes for equations
- Recap
- Chapter 7. How to work with citations
- Appendix A. Becoming a Microsoft Word 2013 power user
- Appendix B. About STREAM Tools
- Appendix C. File template for a single-column report or paper
- Appendix D. File template for a double-column paper
- Appendix E. File template for a thesis, book, or long report
- Appendix F. IEEE template with STREAM Tools enabled
- Appendix G. NIH template with STREAM Tools enabled
- Index
Product information
- Title: Creating Research and Scientific Documents Using Microsoft Word
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2013
- Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
- ISBN: 9780735670433
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