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Scientific thesis writing - help!!
I would be eternally grateful to anyone who could help me with some of the
following problems I have encountered as my Masters deadline is imminent and I am spending far too much time trying to work out the following rather than the content!! Thank you! (i) I have written the Introduction, Materials and methods and results in separate word files and want to merge them to one "master document" so that the format is all the same (ie spacing, margins, header and footer etc). How do I do that? (ii)I have many pictures and graphs which change from portrait to landscape and what to put in page numbers but am finding it very difficult putting the right page numbers on pages that may be from differing word document (iii) how do you change the orientation and position of a page number for a landscape page set up so that it looks like a portrait page number? (iv) some of my pictures approach the edge of the paper so that some of the picture labelling is missing when I print? How do I change the page margins for a single page so that this doesn't happen? (v) i have tried to rearrange the page order in word using the thumbnail view like you can in powerpoint but have had no luck. How do you say put something that is currently page 5 to now be page 2 in the order you read it? Many thanks |
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See the following inline comments.
-- Dawn Crosier Microsoft MVP "Education Lasts a Lifetime" This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn as well. "Will Doward" Will wrote in message ... I would be eternally grateful to anyone who could help me with some of the following problems I have encountered as my Masters deadline is imminent and I am spending far too much time trying to work out the following rather than the content!! Thank you! (i) I have written the Introduction, Materials and methods and results in separate word files and want to merge them to one "master document" so that the format is all the same (ie spacing, margins, header and footer etc). How do I do that? In this instance, I hope you created your documents using Styles. They really are the best way to ensure that the documents are formatted the same. See: http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styl...sOnStyles.html. If you insist on merging the documents together using Master and SubDocument features, then be sure to read the following articles and PLEASE work on COPIES of your documents to avoid complete loss of your documents. http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/Wh...ocsCorrupt.htm and http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/RecoverMasterDocs.htm (ii)I have many pictures and graphs which change from portrait to landscape and what to put in page numbers but am finding it very difficult putting the right page numbers on pages that may be from differing word document See http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=224 and pay special attention to REF fields. (iii) how do you change the orientation and position of a page number for a landscape page set up so that it looks like a portrait page number? See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...apeSection.htm (iv) some of my pictures approach the edge of the paper so that some of the picture labelling is missing when I print? How do I change the page margins for a single page so that this doesn't happen? http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...sDontPrint.htm (v) i have tried to rearrange the page order in word using the thumbnail view like you can in powerpoint but have had no luck. How do you say put something that is currently page 5 to now be page 2 in the order you read it? Personally, I would resort to brute force and copy and paste the information from Page 5 to Page 2. Although the IncludeText field may be of some use. Many thanks |
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Skimmed the original question very fast--for rearranging the pages, Outline
View *might* help, assuming you are really reshuffling sections of your thesis rather than pages. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingOLView.htm Also, a lot of the links Dawn gave plus other ones useful for writing theses are collated here, and spending some time with that page might be helpful: http://daiya.mvps.org/bookword.htm On 8/12/05 1:34 PM, "Dawn Crosier" wrote: See the following inline comments. -- Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/ MacWord Tips: http://www.word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/ What's an MVP? A volunteer! Read the FAQ: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ |
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