Introduction................................................................................................................................ 4
Writing a Report......................................................................................................................... 5
Useful MS Word Tools................................................................................................................ 7
Using Paste Special.................................................................................................................. 7
Using the Research Tool.......................................................................................................... 8
Automatically Summarize Text................................................................................................ 9
Freeze Part of your Word Document..................................................................................... 11
Layout & Design....................................................................................................................... 12
Creating a Title Page.............................................................................................................. 14
Creating a Contents Page....................................................................................................... 15
Creating your Header and Footer.......................................................................................... 16
Adding Page Numbers............................................................................................................ 18
Formatting............................................................................................................................. 21
Font................................................................................................................................... 21
Paragraphs........................................................................................................................ 21
Styles and Themes............................................................................................................ 23
Creating Customary Headers and Font Styles.................................................................. 24
Creating Document templates.......................................................................................... 25
Illustrations & Pictures........................................................................................................... 26
Page Breaks............................................................................................................................ 27
Captions................................................................................................................................. 28
Using Quick parts & automated fields................................................................................... 29
Page Borders.......................................................................................................................... 30
References and Collaboration.................................................................................................. 31
Creating an Index................................................................................................................... 31
Creating Bibliographies.......................................................................................................... 33
Cross Referencing.................................................................................................................. 35
Using Comments.................................................................................................................... 36
Comparing Two Documents.................................................................................................. 37
Finalizing the Document........................................................................................................... 39

Signatures.............................................................................................................................. 40 Watermarks........................................................................................................................... 42 Making Documents ‘Read Only’............................................................................................. 43 Password Protecting Your Document.................................................................................... 44 Printing Your Document to PDF............................................................................................. 45 Further Reading........................................................................................................................ 46