A good formatting of the dissertation, Bachelor and Master’s thesis is the basis to write a successful thesis. To avoid a lot of trouble with formatting at the end of the thesis you should think about doing some basic adjustments in Word at the beginning. As I already coached a lot of students during their

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Before you start writing the thesis a few settings should be made: First of all the thesis should be divided into different sections. The first page usually differs a lot from the other pages. Moreover you probably might have a different numbering in different sections (depending on the requirements of your university). Therefore different sections

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After defining the sections you can start to create a first draft of the table of contents. I recommend to use  the “Quick styles” in word that you can find in the section “Home”. Therewith you can  define headlines and an automatic table of contents can be created. Definition of „Quick styles“ Quick styles are

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To insert a header you can go to the top of a page in Word and make a double-click or go to section “Insert” and click on the button “Header”. To display the heading and the chapter number automatically in the header the prerequisite is that the headings are defined as heading levels as it

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Similar to t he Header you can add for example the page number in the footer of your dissertation or thesis. To add the page number click on the button Page number and choose where you want to insert it. As already mentioned in chapter 1 you can have a different numbering for each section.

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A thesis usually contains a lot of figures so that it is very helpful to add the caption and the numbering of the figures automatically in Word. Therewith an automatic table of figures can be created. To insert a caption of the figure click on the figure and select in the section References the button

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For all who do not have time to create an own Word 2010 style sheet for the thesis you can find below a German and English version of a Word 2010 style sheet for a Bachelor thesis, Masters thesis and dissertations. In both versions an example of a table of contents, table of figures, list of

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