Technical skills in academic writing Lukas Lehotsky Software opportunities at MU • Microsoft Office 365 • Legal MS Office for your workstation • 5 installations available • G Suite from Google • Gmail integration with the IS • Google Drive storage • Both located in the IS – external services Citations in Mendeley MS Word styles • Instead of formatting the whole document, it’s much wiser to use pre-defined styles and modify styles • Every piece of text is associated with some sort of styles • Normal text • Headings • Table/figure caption • Bullet point • Changes in the “normal text” style apply to all other pieces of text • Spacing, indenting, justification, … Headings and outline • Headings allow to create a document structure – the text is easily searchable • List of contents might be automatically generated, along with heading pages • There’s special “Outline” view, where structure of the document may be edited at large Life hacks • Clear all formatting • Instead of changing styles, clearing styles will convert whatever content to the “Normal text” format • Beware – this will erase formats of footnote and endnote links as well • Formatting symbols • Toggling the icon of formatting symbols allows to inspect the structure of formatting • Page break • Instead of lot of spaces, Ctrl+Enter will end the page and jump to next one • Convert footnotes to endnotes • Editing footnotes might be pain – when converted to endnotes, all may be edited at once at the end of document • After editing, they may be converted to footnotes again Captions and cross-references • Captions allow to create table, figure or equation descriptions • Based on captions, dynamic cross-references can be generated • Very useful for in-text referencing of objects located in the document • All values update automatically (e.g. renumbering) • An automatic list of figures/tables/equations may be generated • Cross-references may also reference to heading and document structure Any other technical/computer related questions?