Formatting Your Thesis or Dissertation with Microsoft Word

There are a few things that format checkers see a lot. This video shows some of these things and demonstrates how to fix:
• blank pages
• headers (inconsistent capitalization and centering, and headers at the bottom of a page)
• tables and figures (incorrect centering and capitalization, illegible tables and figures, captions on a different page, tables and figures that are more than one page long, and thesis file size that is too large because of a lot of image files)
• extra white space at the top and bottom of pages
• things that are out of place
• Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures, and List of Appendices for correct headings and page numbers
• Arabic page numbers in the Table of Contents instead of Roman page numbers

Remember to check your thesis or dissertation with the Guidelines for Formatting Doctoral Dissertation and Master's Theses and Deep Blue Archiving web page [coming soon] before you submit your thesis or dissertation. That will help you get your thesis or dissertation format approved faster.

Your dedication page does not have to have a heading! If your dedication is short, it may look better centered on the page, both horizontally and vertically, as well as without the "Dedication" heading. The following video demonstrates how to do this.