Tag: WritingAboutWriting

Back to the Word example document-- this time to make a table of figures. I've already captioned photos here, so this is pretty quick and easy. If you're looking for more Word formatting tips, check out the permanent page added to the main menu-- Writing. It starts really similarly to making a Table of Contents.… Continue reading Table of Figures →

Two quick things I forgot to add last week when I wrote about tables of contents (catch up on the previous post here). First, you can use the "Heading 2" or "Heading 3" buttons to make subheadings. Subheadings can have different text formatting from the main headings and can be indented on the table of… Continue reading Navigation Pane →

More writing about writing! I expanded the example word document from the examples on adding captions to figures and line numbers. Now it has two different headings-- I'm going to format the headings and make a table of contents. To format the headings, I'm going to highlight the text and select the "Heading 1" option… Continue reading Table of Contents →

I'm working through the last chapter of my thesis this week and ran into some little challenges with table formatting. Originally I had site-year as my rows and soil property as my columns for a particular table, but I decided rotating the table 90 degrees made sense. I didn't want to have to move data… Continue reading Tips for Table Formatting: Rotating Data in Excel and Pages in Word →

Another little Word tip! When I collaborate on a document, I like to have line numbers in the margin. Then I can call people and ask them, "What do you think about page 5 line 15?" instead of, "What do you think about the 3rd sentence of the 2nd paragraph on page 5?" Is it… Continue reading Line Numbers →

There are a lot of good ways to compile different images into a single figure. For me, the print composer in QGIS works to get my map, scales, and legends into a single TIFF to embed in a word document or send as an attachment 90 percent of the time. The other 10 percent of… Continue reading Making Figures in PowerPoint →