INSTRUCTIONS ON FORMATTING A DOCUMENT PROFESSIONALLY BY USING MS OFFICE TOOLS/METHODS

This guide intends to provide instructions on how to format while writing your report or formatting an already written document by using MS Office tools/methods. I suggest you go through all the pages of this guide before you begin formatting your document. After this, you can begin following this guide step by step.

NB:

§  The word Preliminaries/Preliminary pages as used in here refers to all the pages that deserve receiving a different numbering style (mostly Roman numbers are used) from the main contents of a document. They include Certification, Declaration, Acknowledgement, Dedication, Abstract, Table of Contents, Lists (Of Tables, Figures, Abbreviations etc).

After the Preliminaries, the other following pages/Real content (e.g Introduction, Problem Statement, Literature Review, Methodology, Results and Discussion, Conclusion and Recommendation, References/Bibliography, Appendices) usually require another numbering style( usually Arabic numerals are used).

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§  To make things easy, all the TITLES HIGHLIGHTED IN RED in the Document Formatting (From Scratch) Template require manual insertion/typing (e.g ,[Certification, Declaration, Acknowledgement, Dedication, Abstract and List of Abbreviations] for the preliminaries and [Introduction, Problem Statement, Literature Review, Methodology, Results and Discussion, Conclusion and Recommendation & Appendices] for the Real Content)

and all those TITLES HIGHLIGHTED IN GREEN are AUTO-GENERATED.(e.g [Table of Contents, Lists Of Tables & Figures] for the Preliminaries and [References/Bibliography] for the real content)

§  The Office Properties used in the template are:

v  Line Spacing-1.15

v  Font-Times New Roman

v  Font Size-12

v  Page Layout Spacing-Before-0, Afterf-0