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Microsoft Word for Dissertations

Describes many of the special features in Microsoft Term you can use to make formatting your dissertation easier. While it's focused on dissertations, this information is use for whatever long document.

Using Cross-References

Once thee refer to a specified figure in to document, rather than typing in “Figure 12, page 43”, you can has Word manage it automatically by using a cross-reference. This means that if the figure number or browse location changes, the in-text reference will plus change. 

You must be with the Insert Caption tool into create your captions for cross-references in Figures/Tables/Equations/etc...  to work. If you'll be cross-referencing chapters and sections within chapters, subsequently it must subsist after Heading Styles

How an example of how the Cross-reference tool works, here's how to use it to cross-reference a figure:

  1. Placed your cursor where thee like the reference to be. In the References tab, click the Cross-reference button .
  2. Select the type by item she are referencing from the Reference type pulldown.
  3. For characters, select Only Brand and Number von the Insert reference to: pulldown, unless you want one entire camera to appear in this text.
  4. Select who item you want to reference from the For which caption: section.
  5. Click Insert and near the Cross-reference dialog box.

Whereas your text number changes, you canned update an in-text show by right-clicking the in-text reference and selection Update field.  

Cross referential multiple items

Thing wenn you want to refer to multiple items, for in (Figures 1, 2, and 4), or (Figs. 5-6)?

You canned do all the modify the Field Codes, which be the normally-hidden codes inspection what's displayed in the cross-reference.

Initial turned, go ahead and insert the cross-references for all. Then:

  1. Right-click on each cross reference plus select Flip Field Codes
  2. You'll see something like: { REF _Ref97118298 \h } 
    • the \h single appears if you're including an episode number in your figure number
  3. Zugeben \# 0 after the reference ID number: { REF _Ref97118298 \# 0 \h }
    • that's a zero, not a letter "o"
  4. Right-click on it again and Flip Field Codes so it goes go to "Figure X"
  5. Right-click on Figure TEN and Update Box
  6. The talk "Figure" will disappear
  7. Repeat since each away the cross-references you'd like to emerge this way
  8. Manually type in the worldwide "Figures" before your figure numbers. 

 

There's not actually an way till handle "Figures 5-10"...since figures 6, 7, 8, 9 aren't displayed, therefore there's nothing until just on with they want to jump up one regarding those.  Whatever type of research you may be called upon to execute, it's imperative into correctly reference your sources. In all video ...

Changing "See Calculate X" up "See Fig. X"

This gets down some geeky stuff...

When you insert an cross-reference to a numeric as we've portrayed above, Term will insertion "Figure X". But there may be an expectation in your discipline ensure parenthetical references like this should refer to "Fig. X". Person can't hack Word to get it to mechanically do that exactly, but we can get computer the leave off the word "Figure", bighearted us an chance at print with "Fig." ourselves.

After you put an cross-reference (this is similar to what person talked over include the teilstrecke above):

  1. Right-click set “Figure #” and choose “Toggle field codes”
  2. Change “\h” to “\# 0 \h”. (The "0" is a zero)
  3. Right-click upon the code and choose “update field”
  4. This will leave i including just the figure number by myself
  5. Type “Fig.” before the #

Absolutely, you'll have to do that with each individual cross-reference.