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How to edit a style

Published November 23, 2010

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Styles apply a common set of formatting to a paragraph within Word. In a previous post, we showed how to apply a style to a paragraph. This tutorial will show two ways to edit an existing style.

First, edit the text as you desire. In the example below, I have edited the text “Introduction” to be a different font (Adobe Garamond Pro Bold) and size (24 point) than the original Heading 1 style. We can tell Heading 1 is applied to this text because it is outlined in orange in the Style section of the ribbon.

Edit the text to meet your specifications.

How to apply a style to a paragraph

Published November 22, 2010

By Debra Charlesworth

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Styles in Word are used to format text consistently throughout your document. Each paragraph may have a single style applied to it. For each paragraph, styles define the:

Appearance of the text (bold, bulleted, size, font, etc.)
Behavior of the paragraph (does it stay with the next paragraph? Have a page break before it?)
Structure of the document (is this a heading meant for the table of contents?)

Styles are found on the Home tab of Word, in the Styles section (boxed in the figure below).

The Styles section on the Home tab contains all of the built in styles available for use.

How to rotate landscape pages in a pdf file

Published July 21, 2010

By Debra Charlesworth

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For your thesis or dissertation, you must either present all pages in portrait orientation, or list all of the landscape pages on the Degree completion form. If you have many landscape pages, it may be easier to rotate the pages in the pdf than list all of the pages one by one.

This tip requires Adobe Acrobat, and applies to either a single sided or double sided document.

How to check your papersize and page number location

Published July 20, 2010

By Debra Charlesworth

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Having the correct paper size and page number location is an important part of preparing a thesis or dissertation. Adobe Reader and Acrobat have tools that will help you verify these elements of your document.

How to use the Edit Text Tool

Published July 9, 2010

By Debra Charlesworth

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Adobe Acrobat has a Edit Text & Images Tool for content editing. This tool can be used to do minor text edits, such as deleting a small amount of text, or fixing a spelling mistake.

Open your pdf file, and select Edit Text & Images by clicking on “Tools” and selecting it from the “Content Editing” section as shown in the screen shot below. If you use the tool a lot, right click on the tool to “Add to Quick Tools” and it will appear on your toolbar.

How to submit a document to ProQuest

Published July 8, 2010

By Debra Charlesworth

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All students completing a masters’s thesis or doctoral dissertation must submit their work to ProQuest. This tutorial is divided into four sections, which match the sections on the ProQuest submission webpage:

How to access a document in Perceptive Content

Published May 26, 2010

By Debra Charlesworth

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Graduate School forms submitted by students are electronically stored in Perceptive Content (formerly known as ImageNow). All member of the graduate faculty and authorized staff may access these forms by opening the Perceptive Content program, and logging in with their Michigan Tech ISO ID and password. Students do not have access to Perceptive Content. Dissertation, thesis, or report reviews are available to students through Canvas (for pre-defense documents) or Digital Commons (for post-defense documents).

Faculty can also choose not to utilize Perceptive Content to access the student’s review. These faculty may ask their student to share the review file with them, or contact the Graduate Program Assistant for access to the file. The email notification lets the faculty member know that the review is available.

Perceptive Content may be installed on any University computer running the Windows operating system; contact IT for assistance. There is no longer a web client for Perceptive Content.

If your computer is unable to have Perceptive Content installed, the software can also be accessed on the University’s remote server, remote.mtu.edu. See information from IT on how to connect using a Windows or Mac computer and note that a VPN will be needed to access from off campus.

Once logged in, click on the “Documents” icon. If you have access to more than one set of documents, click on the arrow next to the “Documents” icon and select “Graduate School.” Note that the name of the software is now Perceptive Content, some windows in the program may still list ImageNow in the title bar of the window.

How to determine if fonts are embedded in a pdf file

Published April 27, 2010

By Debra Charlesworth

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Embedding fonts in your pdf file allows anyone who opens your file to see the document as you intended. If you don’t embed a font, the pdf viewer will substitute a font if it is not available on the computer viewing the document, and the result usually isn’t what you intended.

To determine if all of your fonts are embedded in your pdf file, open your pdf file in Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader.

How to use tabs to align text

Published April 26, 2010

By Debra Charlesworth

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Tabs can be used to align text in a document. This is very useful for lining up the numbers in the table of contents, equations in the body of the document, or lining up lists of items. Spaces should never be used to line up items, since each character in a font is a different width. Precise alignment of items is only possible with a tab.