Setting up your PhD documents to make the most of the tools Word offers.

Course Details

Audience: All YSJ alumni, students and staff

Format: One and a half hours in person on York Campus

Prior knowledge: A working knowledge of Microsoft Word

This is an expanded version of our dissertation Word2 course aimed at longer form writing such as a PhD thesis.

This course includes:

• Applying and amending heading styles
• Using the navigation pane
• Controlling margins and line spacing
• Showing hidden formatting marks
• Making sections start on a new page
• Adding page numbers and an automatic table of contents
• Using section breaks to change page number styles
• Other uses of section breaks
• Captions and tables of figures
• Cross-reference tool
• Using languages, spelling and grammar check
• Checking word count
• Saving your work to OneDrive, managing versions and Word Online
• A brief look at Track Changes

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York St John Graduate attributes

As well as other skills, knowledge and competencies gained from your  time at York St John, these attributes are designed to enable graduates to thrive in life and work.

These courses contribute particularly to the following Graduate Attributes:

Confident

• Communicate, in a range of formats and for different audiences
• Confident in your skills and aspirational in setting goals for the future

Authentic

• Engaged with relevant technology and using it in a socially responsible way

Resilient

• Able to adapt to technological change and agile in approach to learning

Enterprising

• Aware of resources and able to utilise these to support personal and professional development

Professional

• Knowledgeable, evidence led and intellectually curious