Increase the quality and consistency of your technical documents Takeaways:

Amplify your document’s impact with this specialized guide to Microsoft Word. Writing technical proposals, reports, journal articles, theses, and other complex documents poses unique challenges—from managing formats, figures, and equations to ensuring consistent presentation and voice in a multi-author scenario. In this book, you’ll learn from the authors’ extensive experience managing the authoring and publication of long-form technical content. And you’ll gain specific practices and templates that you can apply right away. Use templates to help simplify the creation of long documents Learn how to set up your own custom templates Create table styles that are effective, attractive, and reusable Compose and edit figures Present simple to complex equations accurately Manage automatic numbering, cross-references, citations, and bibliographies Increase the quality of collaborative writing projects—from formatting, editing, and citations management to commenting and version control.

Foreword
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Using templates in Word 2013
Chapter 2 How to design templates
Chapter 3 How to work with headings
Chapter 4 How to work with figures
Chapter 5 How to work with tables
Chapter 6 How to work with equations
Chapter 7 How to work with citations

Appendix A: Becoming a Microsoft Word 2013 power user
Appendix C: File template for a single-column report or paper
Appendix D: File template for a double-column paper
Appendix E: File template for a thesis, book, or long report
Appendix F: IEEE template with STREAM Tools enabled
Appendix G: NIH template with STREAM Tools enabled

Index
About the authors