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Formatting Your Thesis or Dissertation with Microsoft Word

The video tutorials in this guide may be used to format your thesis or dissertation even though the titles refer only to the thesis.

Lists of tables and figures

Just like the table of contents, Microsoft Word can be used to automatically generate both a list of tables and a list of figures. Automatic generation of these lists has the same advantages as automatically generating the table of contents:

  • You don't have to manually type the list of tables or the list of figures
  • You don't have to go back and edit the lists if any of the figures or tables changes pages. A couple of clicks and Word will automatically update the list of tables or the list of figures for you.

Below is a tutorial demonstrating how to create the list of tables and the list of figures.

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