Specially arranged for Taught Postgraduate students, IT services will deliver the following online sessions to support anyone writing and formatting their dissertation using Microsoft Word. The sessions will be delivered via MS Teams.
'Adding Style to your Dissertation'
11:00 – 12:00 – Monday 25 May
11:00 – 12:00 – Tuesday 26 May
Content:
Stress-free steps to Navigation, Table of Contents, Auto numbering and Styles.
What are Styles
Styles Launcher
Using Built-in Styles
Modifying Styles
Navigation Pane
Auto Numbering
Table of Content
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'The power of section breaks'
14:00 – 15:00 – Monday 25 May
14:00 – 15:00 – Tuesday 26 May
Content:
How to stop unwanted page orientation continuing through the rest of your document, different page numbering for contents pages and the rest of a document. How to change and control page orientation throughout your document, set and change the page numbering options on different parts of your document and much more.
Page Setup
Cover Page
Section Breaks
Page Numbering
Orientation to landscape
Captions
Please book a place through the course booking system as normal. https://www.abdn.ac.uk/coursebooking (Select category 'IT Services Training and Documentation Team')
Details of how to join the session will be provided in advance of each training slot. If you cannot attend the timed virtual slots please do not book a place, but don’t worry we’ll make recordings available after the event.
We would also like to draw you attention to the support provided by the Library and the Student Learning Service.
We have prepared a series of short recordings presenting techniques, tips and resources to help you find academic scholarly books and journal articles and reliable support materials. The issues of plagiarism and correct referencing are also covered as well as instruction on reference management software RefWorks.
Our colleagues in the Student Learning Service have also prepared the following recordings:
‘Planning and writing a dissertation’
‘Writing a Literature Review’
These useful materials can be found on our wiki at:
http://finditfastlibraryworkshops.pbworks.com/ – click on the ‘Taught Postgraduates’ tab on the pink line across the top.
Please get in touch if you need help with anything! Information Consultant details can be found at: http://bit.ly/InfoConsultants