STYLES

Manually formatting every heading and style of text is incredibly labour intensive and always leads to inconsistencies in size and style which detract from the appearance of your thesis and may be criticised by examiners.

Use Microsoft Word’s styles feature to ensure uniformity throughout your thesis. A few hours spent learning how to use Microsoft Word styles properly will be rewarded many times over. You need to learn how to format and save individual styles so that you can reuse them throughout your thesis

Here are some useful links for learning how to use styles:
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm
https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/word2016/applying-and-modifying-styles/1/
https://shaunakelly.com/word/styles/stylesms.html

If you Google “how to use Microsoft Word styles” you will be directed to many other pages which between them will teach you everything you need to know.

Once you have learnt to modify and apply styles, use them throughout your thesis for formatting headings and text. Do not apply styles to some headings or text, and then manually format others. (Manual formatting means selecting words or paragraphs and setting formats for them alone, as opposed to formatting a style and then applying that style where ever it is appropriate throughout the text.) When you combine the two they will rapidly get out of sync leading to glaring inconsistencies in presentation.

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