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My college\u2019s final year project report had to be made & there was a huge hoopla surrounding the un-said compulsory rule<\/em> of making use of LaTex. Now, I did not understand what was the big deal about LaTex was when a friend told me that our college forced on the use of the same because of the way it allows you to insert equations & the auto-update index. Blah! I retorted & came to my lovely Word 2007. Here are some tips that follow to create my project reports.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. Make A Basic Structure & Start Typing<\/strong><\/p>\n When you start out to make a document, plan a basic structure & start off<\/strong>. I don\u2019t usually keep a fixed structure, divide the document into possible sections and start typing the document<\/strong>. You can re-arrange<\/strong> the sections at a later<\/strong> point in time. The biggest problem that I have seen is people spend a lot of time thinking about how to categorize the document content whereas that is the last thing 1 should bother about. The document is all about the matter & you need to type it. So once the matter is typed one can arrange it to heart\u2019s content.<\/p>\n 2. Report Formatting<\/strong><\/p>\n This takes most of my time. Usually documents have a cover page, may have certificate & acknowledgment pages. The most comfortable way to add these into the final print is to make a separate\/new document for Cover page along with acknowledgment & certificate pages<\/strong>. It makes adding header\/footers & page numbers to the content document much simpler, I usually prefer not having page numbers, headers & footers on these pages.<\/p>\n 3. Page Formatting<\/strong><\/p>\n For example, your first page is \u201cTable of Contents\u201d, followed by \u201cIntroduction\u201d after that you begin with section 1 of your report, maybe basic idea of project. I will strongly recommend you to follow the following steps<\/strong>:<\/p>\n This includes the header\/footer of the report. Word 2007 has some templates for headers\/footers & out of them my favorite is the \u201cAustere Even Page\u201d for header & \u201cAustere Odd Page\u201d for footer. Simple & easy to format.<\/p>\n My header contains the type of document, for example \u2013 Project Synopsis & the name of the project.<\/p>\n The footer has the page\/section title of the section & the names of my group (Note:<\/strong> Documents should list his name last). You can have the company name instead of the group members\u2019 names.<\/p>\n The benefit of the \u201cMethod of Entry\u201d step, will now be seen in the footer where the heading of the section appears in the footer. For me it automatically works with the \u201cAustere\u201d template only<\/strong>. However, if you want to do this with other templates, you will need to edit the footer for each \u201csection\u201d. This can be done by:<\/p>\n Adding box page borders for some reason does make the whole document look good, IMHO. But you can choose not to according to you.<\/p>\n 4. Text Formatting:<\/strong><\/p>\n My personal font preference for the content<\/strong> is \u2013 Calibri, size 11.<\/p>\n Section titles<\/strong> \u2013 Cambria, style Heading 1, size 14.<\/p>\n Sub-sections<\/strong> \u2013 Cambria, style Heading 2 or 3 accordingly.<\/p>\n NOTE: <\/strong>These font sizes look really neat after printing on a normal A4.<\/p>\n I would suggest use of dark or light shades of 1 particular color. Like, Section title can be dark blue, sub-sections can be lighter blue.<\/p>\n Text alignment <\/strong>\u2013 Justified. Very slick.<\/p>\n A simple tip that can be used very effectively is the paragraph spacing. I use this a lot to remove spacing between items in list & adding space between the list and the following paragraph. Play with it & you shall find very handy. To get access to this:<\/p>\n 5. Finalizing<\/strong><\/p>\n The first page should be \u201cTable of Content\u201d and Word 2007 has an amazing auto-creator for the same. If you have followed the section styling of Heading 1, heading 2 etc. then this is just 1 click away:<\/p>\n You can choose not to have the Header-Footer for the TOC page, for this:<\/p>\n Once your document is done, I will strongly urge you to import the document into PDF or XPS before taking it to another PC or printing it. This is very essential to ensure that any of the formatting or the font styles are not lost. If you are using a genuine Microsoft Office, then you can download the \u201cExport to PDF\u201d plugin from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n As far as equations are concerned, Word 2007 is abso-friggin\u2019-lutely lovely when it comes to inserting equations. Only 1 tip that would like to share for equations is:<\/p>\n Here are the 2 parts of my latest project documentation, if you want to see the final outcome:<\/p>\n Synopsis<\/a> | Cover & Certificate page<\/a><\/p>\n ~Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 5 simple tips & a few pointers on how to use Word 2007 to create a simple yet elegant looking project report.<\/p>\n\n
Method of Text Entry<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Home \u2013> Heading 1<\/div>\n<\/li>\nEnter the section title.<\/div>\n<\/li>\nChange font style to \u201cNormal\u201d.<\/div>\n<\/li>\nType your content & create a new section.<\/div>\n<\/li>\nTo create the next section:<\/div>\n\n
Select Page Layout from the ribbon.<\/div>\n<\/li>\nLeft-click on Breaks in the group Page Setup and select “Section Break…Next Page”<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
Header-Footer:<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
On the Insert<\/strong> menu, point to Reference<\/strong>, and then click Cross-reference<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\nIn the Reference type<\/strong> box, click Heading<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\nIn the For which heading<\/strong> box, click the heading that contains the chapter title.<\/div>\n<\/li>\nIn the Insert reference to<\/strong> box, select what you want to insert in the header or footer. For example,<\/div>\n\n
Click Heading number<\/strong> to insert the chapter number.<\/div>\n<\/li>\nClick Heading text<\/strong> to insert the chapter heading.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\nClick Insert<\/strong>, and then click Close<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\nRepeat the steps to edit titles of different sections.<\/div>\n<\/li>\nTo break connection \u201cLink to Previous<\/strong>\u201d.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
Borders:<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Font:<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Paragraph<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Right click on an area of text you want increase\/decrease formatting.<\/div>\n<\/li>\nParagraph \u2013> Indents & Spacing \u2013> Spacing<\/div>\n<\/li>\nAdjust the \u201cBefore\u201d, \u201cAfter\u201d & \u201cLine Spacing\u201d accordingly.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
References \u2013> Table of Contents \u2013> Automatic Table 1<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Insert \u2013> Header\/Footer \u2013> Check \u201cDifferent First Page\u201d<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
To add a subscript (eg: log 10 to the base 2) \u2013 log\u00a0 underscore\u00a0 2 10<\/div>\n<\/li>\nTo add a superscript (eg: x<\/em> raise to y<\/em>)\u00a0 \u2013 x<\/em> (shift+6)y<\/em><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n