Use Microsoft Word 2010 & 2013 for Dissertations: Home

This document provides information that will help you use Microsoft Word 2007 effectively for your dissertation. Topics include: formatting page numbers, using chapter templates, footnotes, images, and figures. Topics such as special pagination for the front matter or landscape pages and combining documents are also included.

• Share your file(s) with your advisors using Tracked Changes (Commenting and Reviewing).
• If you use EndNote to manage your citations and create your bibliography, use only one EndNote library for your entire dissertation (see http://guides.lib.umich.edu/x3).
• Use styles to control the formatting of your dissertation and create a template to use for all of your chapters. The bulk of this document revolves around the use of styles.
• Set the margins including the two-inch margin for chapters titles (Setting Margins).
• Define styles for Headings 1-3, Normal, Captions, and Quotes – these are most common; you may need others (Working with Styles).
• If headings need to be numbered (for example, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, etc.), define a multi-level list (Automatic Numbering).
• If captions need to include the chapter number, define a multi-level list (Automatic Numbering).

Inserting Images, Charts and Other Non-text Objects

Working with Styles

Adding Page Numbers

Creating Landscape Pages

Although Microsoft Office 2010 looks very similar to Office 2007, there are a couple of changes:

• The Office Button has become the File Ribbon in Office 2010. The File Ribbon contains such standard features as Open, Close, Print, Save, etc. In addition, this menu allows you to quickly manage Word settings (Permissions, Sharing, Versions, Properties, and Options).
• Within the View Ribbon, in the Show Group, there is a new option to view Headings of your document in a sidebar. 
• Within the Navigation Pane, you can click a heading to go to that location and move items by dragging and dropping. Note that only items with a “Heading” style will appear in the Navigation Pane (see Working with Styles).

This guide was originally created by the Knowledge Navigation Center Faculty Exploratory: http://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=283073&p=1886008     

For more information about locating dissertations, try this our guide on Finding Dissertations.