Chapter 8: Tools for Reports and Scholarly Papers

In This Chapter

arrow.png Putting a list in alphabetical order

arrow.png Working in Outline view

arrow.png Collapsing and expanding headings

arrow.png Creating a table of contents

arrow.png Indexing and cross-referencing your work

arrow.png Managing footnotes and endnotes

arrow.png Putting together a bibliography

This chapter is hereby dedicated to everyone who has had to delve into the unknown and write a report about it. Writing reports, manuals, and scholarly papers is not easy. You have to explore uncharted territory. You have to contemplate the ineffable. And you have to write bibliographies and footnotes and maybe an index, too. Word cannot take you directly to uncharted territory, but it can take some of the sting out of it.

This chapter explains how to construct an outline, handle footnotes and ...

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