Creating Research and Scientific Documents Using Microsoft Word

Increase the quality and consistency of your technical documents Takeaways: Amplify your documents impact with this specialized guide to Microsoft Word. Writing technical proposals, reports, journal articles, theses and other complex documents poses unique challenges-from managing formats, figures and equations to ensuring consistent presentation and voice in a multi-author scenario. In this book, yoll learn from the authors extensive experience managing the authoring and publication of long-form technical content. And youll gain specific practices and templates that you can apply right away. Use templates to help simplify the creation of long documents Learn how to set up your own custom templates Create table styles that are effective, attractive and reusable Compose and edit figures Present simple to complex equations accurately Manage automatic numbering, cross-references, citations and bibliographies Increase the quality of collaborative writing projects-from formatting, editing and citations management to commenting and version control. Table of Contents: Foreword Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Using templates in Word 2013 Chapter 2: How to design templates Chapter 3: How to work with headings Chapter 4: How to work with figures Chapter 5: How to work with tables Chapter 6: How to work with equations Chapter 7: How to work with citations Appendix A: Becoming a Microsoft Word 2013 power user 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