Authoring Scientific and Technical Documents with Microsoft Word 2000

Podlubny, I., Kassayova, K.: Authoring Scientific and Technical Documents with Microsoft Word 2000. Cambridge International Science Publishing, Cambridge, 2001, xviii+162 pages, ISBN 1898326800.

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Table of Contents

• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Text
  • 2.1 Choosing the font type
  • 2.2 Using different shapes of the chosen font
  • 2.3 Using different font sizes
  • 2.4 Enumerated lists
  • 2.5 Bulletted lists
  • 2.6 Hierarchical lists
  • 2.7 Text quotations
  • 2.8 Columns
  • 2.9 Formatting with the help of styles
  • 2.10 Defining and customizing paragraph and heading styles
  • 2.11 Description lists
  • 2.12 Using character styles - forget about bold and italic
  • 2.13 Hyphens and hyphenation
  • 2.14 En dash, em dash, and minus
  • 2.15 Hard space as a glue
  • 2.16 Ligatures and some other symbols
• 3 Mathematical Formulas
  • 3.1 General recommendations for typesetting equations
  • 3.2 Defining and changing a formatting style for equations
  • 3.3 In-line formulas
  • 3.4 Unnumbered displayed equations
  • 3.5 Numbered equations: Problem formulation
  • 3.6 Typesetting numbered equations
  • 3.7 Defining a paragraph style for displayed equations
  • 3.8 Cross-references to equations
  • 3.9 Writing equations using Microsoft Equation Editor
  • 3.10 Text within an equation
• 4 Figures and Tables
  • 4.1 Basic recommendations for placing illustrations
  • 4.2 Including figures
  • 4.3 Defining own caption labels
  • 4.4 In-line illustrations and floating illustrations
  • 4.5 In-line figures: inserting a figure
  • 4.6 In-line figures: adding a caption
  • 4.7 Floating figures: inserting a figure with a caption
  • 4.8 In-line tables: inserting a table
  • 4.9 In-line tables: adding a caption
  • 4.10 Floating tables: inserting a table with a caption
  • 4.11 Diagrams, schemes, algorithms, and other illustrations
  • 4.12 Cross-references to figures, tables, and other illustrations
• 5 Making Bibliography
  • 5.1 Creating an enumerated bibliography list
  • 5.2 Referring to items of an enumerated bibliography list
  • 5.3 Sorting an enumerated bibliography list alphabetically
  • 5.4 Creating a bibliography list with alphanumeric labels
  • 5.5 Referring to items of a bibliography list with alphanumeric labels
  • 5.6 Sorting a bibliography list with alphanumeric labels alphabetically
  • 5.7 Creating a Harvard-styled bibliography list
  • 5.8 Referring to items of a Harvard-styled bibliography list
  • 5.9 Sorting a Harvard-styled bibliography list alphabetically
  • 5.10 Separate bibliography lists for separate book chapters
• 6 Generating Contents
  • 6.1 Table of contents
  • 6.2 Tables of contents for separate chapters
  • 6.3 List of figures
  • 6.4 List of tables
  • 6.5 Lists of other objects
  • 6.6 Single index
  • 6.7 Multiple indices: marking-up index entries
  • 6.8 Multiple indices: inserting indices
• 7 Page Numbering
  • 7.1 The notion of section in Microsoft Word 2000
  • 7.2 Plain page numbering (1-112)
  • 7.3 Book type page numbering (i-xxii, 1-90)
  • 7.4 Titles of chapters and sections in page headers
• 8 Work Faster and more Efficiently
  • 8.1 Copying: use Paste Special
  • 8.2 AutoText
  • 8.3 AutoCorrect
  • 8.4 User-defined buttons on the toolbar
  • 8.5 User-defined menus
• 9 Working with Long Documents
  • 9.1 Dividing a long document in smaller parts
  • 9.2 Working with the master document
  • 9.3 Working with subdocuments
• 10 Printing
  • 10.1 One-sided and double-sided printing
  • 10.2 n-up printing
  • 10.3 Printing leaflets and brochures
  • 10.4 Creating PDF using Adobe Acrobat
• Appendix A: Table of some Language Codes
• Appendix B: Limits of Microsoft Word 2000
• Index