Reasonable requests....

There are programs that will manage your citations for you so that you can
use and reuse and format them automatically. I strongly doubt Word will ever
have this feature, as it's quite specialized and there are already
third-party solutions for those who would actually use it. Google for
bibliographic management software--the big three (all discounted for
students, aimed at academics/research scientists) are EndNote, ProCite, and
Reference Manager, but there may be cheaper ones more suited to a student's
limited needs.

Otherwise, copy and paste and Find & Replace can save quite a lot of time.

Like Jay said, the templates you want are probably already online. If MS has
not created them, try searching the web via google.

Re the various writing formats, most schools/professors tend to have their
own preferred styles for the layout and formatting of dissertations,
research projects, etc, so a template would not necessarily be that helpful.
If you are hoping templates would help with the content of such things,
e.g., how to organize them, what to put in them, god forbid that such issues
get left up to Microsoft and then distributed to the entire world. Again,
there are many "how to write a paper proposal" etc, guides on the internet.
Better to have students searching the web for a selection and choosing the
tips most appropriate for their topic, than to inflict a "one-size-fits-all"
solution on the globe.

However, if other people find your suggestions, I suspect it would get lots
of votes. An APA template is a very common request.


On 1/20/06 11:14 AM, "tchicks" wrote:

I would like Word (student and teacher version) to have a template a
student can use to write a term paper, essay, or thesis. This should include
various writing formats: proposal, applications paper, dissertation, thesis,
research project etc.)
I want it to also include a template for the reference page; choices of
either Chicago, APA or MLA style. Or any other popular styles. This will
help students, young and mature, with work flow and fewer work interruptions.
There should be a feature to save references so we can choose and input
previously use citings or just create them while reading the source and input
them when the paper is written.
The synonym and dictionary feature should be periodically updated with
new words. It's too basic for students and teachers.
I use Microsoft Office 2003 for Students and Teachers.

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