MS-Word
- Introduction
- Theory
- Document Structure
- Chapter Headings
- Chapter Numbering
- Table of Contents
- Outline
- Navigator
- Text Body
- Paragraph styles overview
- Reusing styles
- Default Page Formatting
- Title Page
- Papers without a Title Page
- Pages with and without numbering
- Roman Page Numbering
- Group Work
- Proofreading
- Numbered lists and bullets
- Line numbering
- Cross-references
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
- Quotes
- Tables
- Charts
- Pictures
- Snapshots
- Presentations & Graphics
- Cross tables (Statistics)
- Extra Long Web Adresses
- Fonts
- Emphasis
- Special Characters
- Non separable combinations
- Shortcut keys
- Mouse clicks
- PDFs
- Saving your files
- Several files open at once
- Search and replace
- Spell Check
- Synonyms
- Document Infos
- Labels and Form letters
- Help
- Installing Program
- Microsoft Word
- Practice I
- Practice II
In case your lecturer insists on being provided with a Microsoft Word document, just export your document to Word by choosing File › Save as and then selecting File type › Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP.
If on the other hand you have just imported a Word document full of inconsistent formatting, mark the whole thing with Ctrl + a, turn the whole text into Text body with Ctrl + 0, then make sure all old formatting disappears completely with Ctrl + m and finally format your text from scratch using styles. Note that instead of starting completely from scratch, you can delete or replace existing styles with others. For that just go to Edit › Find & Replace › More Options and tick Styles.
Illustration 17. As you can see the header in Word sticks to the upper page edge regardless of margin width and away from the main text to which it belongs; OpenOffice leaves margin free.
Illustration 18. Microsoft Word: Lots of buttons which change around “dynamically” depending on what you are doing (German version)