Office applicationsMicrosoft Word tools
Basic MS Word tools
Using inbuilt styles in MS Word
The use of inbuilt (or built-in) styles in MS Word has several advantages: you don't have to format items manually (e.g. selecting bold and 14pt for a certain heading), you don't have to worry about consistency, you can change your style at any point and all items with this style will be changed accordingly, you can easily build a table of contents (or any other type of table) by asking Word to generate on the basis of the heading styles you applied.
General info (all versions of Word)
Inserting figures and using captions
Building tables: Table of contents, Table of figures
MS Word tools for academics
Dealing with bibliography issues in MS Word
- The Footnote, endnote and bibliography questions FAQ page at the Microsoft Word MVP site contains information about the following kinds of issues:
Bibliographies in MS Word 2007
MS Word 2007 has inbuilt bibliography styles, formatted according to standard citations styles (including APA and MLA). Further options for this features in MS Word 2007 are listed below.
- Creating custom bibliography styles: Bibliography & citations 1011 at The Microsoft Office Word Team's Blog
Useful MS Word links
- Making the most of Word in your business by Shauna Kelly.
LaTeX tools
- latex.ugent.be [in Dutch] (Ghent University)
LaTeX for linguists resources
- Doing linguistics in LaTeX (The Ohio State University)
- LaTeX4Ling: LaTeX for linguists (University of Essex)
- Sebastian Nordhoff (University of Amsterdam) summarizes advantages of LaTeX for linguists, including interlinearization, IPA support, tree diagramming.
