Authoring Scientific and Technical Documents with Microsoft Word 2000

✍ Scribed by Igor Podlubny, Katarina Kassayova

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 178
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Microsoft Word has been around for a long time, but until now there was not a book like this one. Why? Because it is challenging to take such a complex subject like creation of scientific and technical documents and express it simply, clearly, concisely, and comprehensively. This book meets this challenge and is the first and the unique one of this kind. The books on Microsoft Word (and many other computer applications) tend to fall into two categories: the small introductory desk references, which do not solve any particular problems, and the 1000-page "bibles" that attempt to answers every question you never thought to ask. This book itself is a third category, combining the advantages of the first and the second one. The amount of information in this short book (xviii + 162 pages) is unbelievable. It covers all aspects of writing scientific and technical documents - fonts, formatting of various text elements using styles, equations, figures and tables, various types of bibliography, generation of contents and indices, various types of page numbering, selected field codes, automation of writing, working with long documents, printing, etc. There is no any other book on Microsoft Word bringing all this information in concise and precise form along with brief explanations from the viewpoint of typesetting. Everything you can possibly think of to do with the Microsoft Word in your scientific or technical document is included and thoroughly explained. One example for all: where else can you find out how you can get your equations numbered automatically along with automatic update of cross-references to them? This is a book which each scientist, student, teacher of engineer, using MicrosoftWord either regularly or occasionally, simply must have for creating consistently formatted and nicely looking articles, reports, theses, textbooks or monographs. The book is organized extremely well. The step-by-step instructions are easy to follow and illustrated with necessary pictures. Orientation in the text and locating necessary information is very easy with the table of contents, running heads, and the extensive index. The practical value of this book is multiplied by the fact that most of its recommendations hold not only for Microsoft Word 2000, but also for Microsoft Word 97 and for Microsoft Word 2002 as well. The added value provided by this book is teaching a general approach to computer typesetting using programs of the Microsoft Word class. After reading and using this book the readers will understand the underlying philosophy of working with such programs. They then will be able to work properly with any other similar program now and in the future. It is well known that nowadays most of scientific and technical documents and publications are created in either LaTeX or Microsoft Word. For LaTeX users, the book by Leslie Lamport -- "LaTeX: A document preparation system" -- is the basic reference source for many years. This book by lgor Podulbny and Katarina Kassayova can undoubtedly be considered as a long-awaited basic reference source for scientific and technical authors using Microsoft Word. Take a look at the table of contents if you do not believe this.

✦ Table of Contents

Half-title page......Page 1
Title page......Page 3
Copyright page......Page 4
Dedication page......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 19
Choosing the font type......Page 23
Using different shapes of the chosen font......Page 24
Using different font sizes......Page 26
Enumerated lists......Page 27
Bulletted lists......Page 29
Hierarchical lists......Page 30
Text quotations......Page 32
Columns......Page 35
Formatting with the help of styles......Page 37
Defining and customizing paragraph and heading styles......Page 39
Description lists......Page 44
Using character styles -- forget about bold and italic......Page 46
Hyphens and hyphenation......Page 48
En dash, em dash, and minus......Page 49
Hard space as glue......Page 50
Ligatures and some other symbols......Page 51
General recommendations for typesetting equations......Page 55
Defining and changing a formatting style for equations......Page 57
In-line formulas......Page 60
Unnumbered displayed equations......Page 61
Numbered equations: Problem formulation......Page 63
Typesetting numbered equations......Page 64
Defining a paragraph style for displayed equations......Page 67
Cross-references to equations......Page 69
Writing equations using Microsoft Equation Editor......Page 73
Text within an equation......Page 78
Basic recommendations for placing illustrations......Page 81
Including figures......Page 83
Defining own caption labels......Page 85
In-line figures: inserting a figure......Page 86
In-line figures: adding a caption......Page 88
Floating figures: inserting a figure with a caption......Page 89
In-line tables: inserting a table......Page 92
In-line tables: adding a caption......Page 93
Floating tables: inserting a table with a caption......Page 95
Diagrams, schemes, algorithms, and other illustrations......Page 96
Cross-references to figures, tables, and other illustrations......Page 98
Making Bibliography......Page 101
Creating an enumerated bibliography list......Page 102
Referring to items of an enumerated bibliography list......Page 105
Creating a bibliography list with alphanumeric labels......Page 107
Sorting a bibliography list with alphanumeric labels alphabetically......Page 110
Creating a Harvard-styled bibliography list......Page 112
Referring to items of a Harvard-styled bibliography list......Page 114
Sorting a Harvard-styled bibliography list alphabetically......Page 117
Separate bibliography lists for separate book chapters......Page 118
Table of contents......Page 119
Tables of contents for separate chapters......Page 121
List of figures......Page 122
Lists of other objects......Page 124
Single index......Page 125
Multiple indices: marking-up index entries......Page 128
Multiple indices: inserting indices......Page 130
The notion of section'' in Microsoft Word 2000......Page 133<br>Plain page numbering (1-112)......Page 135<br>Book type page numbering (i-xxii, 1-90)......Page 136<br>Titles of chapters and sections in page headers......Page 138<br>Copying: usePaste Special''......Page 147
AutoText......Page 148
AutoCorrect......Page 149
User-defined buttons on the toolbar......Page 151
User-defined menus......Page 153
Working with Long Documents......Page 157
Dividing a long document into smaller parts......Page 158
Working with the master document......Page 159
Working with subdocuments......Page 160
One-sided and double-sided printing......Page 161
``n-up'' printing......Page 163
Printing leaflets and brochures......Page 164
Creating PDF using Adobe Acrobat......Page 166
Table of some Language Codes......Page 169
Limits of Microsoft Word 2000......Page 171
Index......Page 172