When the built in styles don’t meet your needs for formatting paragraphs in Word, you will need to create your own styles. In this example, I will create a style for my paragraphs that contain equations.
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.
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).
Students who are scheduling a defense of a thesis or dissertation on or after January 10, 2011 will need to format and submit their document according to the new procedures.
The new procedures do not apply to students submitting a report, or to students who defend before January 10, 2011.
The Graduate School will give a presentation outlining the major changes in formatting and submission procedures on December 9th beginning at 4:05pm. This seminar at least once more in January, based on demand.
Please register online so we can plan for your attendance. After registration, you will receive e-mail reminders closer to the date, and the location of the seminar.
Please contact Debra Charlesworth with any questions.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce new theses and dissertations are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:
- Applied Ecology
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering Physics
- Forest Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
- Geophysics
- Industrial Archaeology
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
The Executive Committee of the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) is soliciting nominations for the 2011 MAGS Distinguished Master’s Thesis Awards to recognize and reward distinguished scholarship and research at the master’s level. Michigan Tech may nominate one candidate.
Eligible students will have earned a master of science degree between October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010.
Please see our web page for complete details on eligibility and application procedures. Nominations are due no later than 4pm, October 11th to Debra Charlesworth in the Graduate School.
Students planning on finishing a thesis or dissertation this semester or next semester are invited a seminar designed to help students understand current procedures, the new procedures, and answer student questions.
Join Debra Charlesworth on September 9th at 4:05pm to learn about the submission process from start to finish.
Faculty and staff who work with students completing a thesis or dissertation are also invited to attend.
Please register online for the event.
Once you register, you will receive a confirmation with the location and a reminder of the date and time. Space is limited, so register early!
If you are unable to join us, a taped version of this seminar is available online from our May 18th presentation.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce new theses and dissertations are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library from the following programs:
- Applied Ecology
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
- Rhetoric and Technical Communication
The Graduate School is pleased to announce new theses and dissertations from the following programs:
- Civil Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Environmental Policy
- Forest Ecology and Management
- Forest Science
- Industrial Archaeology
- Mathematical Sciences
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
are now available in the J.R. van Pelt and Opie Library.
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.