Microsoft Word 1D: Reports: Headers, Footers, Title Pages, Comments, Track Changes, Leaders

Title Pages :

• Reports should start with a title page.
• The title page does not have a page number on it, and should be centered vertically and horizontally with information such as: report title, your name, course, teacher , , etc.

Footnotes (different than "Footer"): Footnotes appear at the bottom of a page, and give the full details of the source of information that is used in a report.

• For example, if you are taking information from the Internet for your report you have to provide details of where you got your information.
• If you do not quote the source of your work you are plagiarizing someone else's work. Rules are strictly enforced in a post-secondary course where you can often be removed from a class or program for plagiarizing someone else's work, or even copying a few sentences from someone else's report that you found on the Internet.
• Footnotes have a certain format as shown below.

Smith, J. & Cooper, P. (1998). Essential Writing Skills for Students. York Press, Toronto, ON p. 109.

Comments:

• When an instructor marks a report submitted in Microsoft Word for example in a post-secondary Geography class, the instructor may insert comments about various items in your report.
• Comments appear in the example below in blue

• You can also use comments to peer-review each other's work prior to sending in assignments for final grading.

Headings and Table of Contents

• Reports often are divided into sections making it easier for the reader to focus on various sections as shown below

• Headings in the report above are created on three levels
  • 1st level heading is centered and bold (Introduction, Overview, Conclusion)
  • 2nd level heading is flush on the left side and bold
  • 3rd level heading is indented .5 on the left side and italic

Proofreading Marks :

• When an instructor marks a report submitted in Microsoft Word for example in a post-secondary Psychology class, the instructor will correct grammatical and spelling mistakes right in the report.
• To separate the corrections from the origninal work, proofreading marks are used to distinguish the changes in a red font.

Headers

• Headers appear at the top of every page (except the title page of a report) and can include items such as date, page #, title of report , , etc.
• In the example below you can see the header at the top of the page with the title of the report and the page number in the Page X of X format

Footers (not Footnotes)

• Footers appear at the bottom of every page (except the title page of a report) and can include items such as date, page #, title of report , , etc.

Title Page

• You won't want the headers and footers and footnotes to appear on the title page, your report should numbering at page 2 (although the title page is page 1, there is no header or footer to indicate this on the title page).

Tabs

• The Tab key on the keyboard automatically indents .5 inches each time it is pressed
• You can customize the Tab key to go a specified distance each time by bringing up the Tabs window as shown
• The Default tabs are set for .5 as shown below

• In the window above a Tab stop position has been set for 4.5 inches
• On the page below you can see that when you click on the Tab key it will go to the 4.5 inch point where you can enter the page (e.g. Introduction on p. 3)

Leaders

• In the window above the 2nd Leader has been selected which will insert periods before the page number automatically (e.g. Introduction.......................3)
• You could also specify a dash ----- or an underline______ leader that will fill all the spaces when you click on the Tab key

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