Course Details
Bring your own laptop or Mac to these hands-on sessions and learn the essential skills to format and edit your content in Word. You will follow a demonstration by external consultant, Chris Steele, and practice quick, simple and effective techniques to create a professional looking thesis that meets Imperial guidelines.
Delivery is broken down into short stages; if you miss or confuse any techniques you are able to open a fresh file at the beginning of each stage and continue following the demonstration.
You can review all of the techniques afterwards by viewing online screencasts, allowing you to focus on practicing the techniques during the session without the need to take notes. You can then watch the screencasts at any time and refresh your knowledge when applying the skills.
By the end of the session, you should be able to:
- Set up a thesis template which meets Imperial guidelines.
- Modify and create styles for all paragraphs, chapter titles, section titles and quotations.
- Insert an automated table of contents, a table of figures and a table of tables.
- Edit and align tables to ensure they are consistent in appearance.
- Resize, crop and align images.
- Use automated captions and cross references for all images / graphics.
- Change the layout of pages from portrait to landscape to display large graphics.
Use a wide range of quick and effective shortcuts to format and edit content.
In order to book your place on this course, please click here and complete the online form.