Using Microsoft Word template for thesis writing.

Has anyone told you about preparing a template for your thesis? Anyone told you about what software(s) to use to write your thesis at all?

Chances are you have asked, and you had one of the following answers:

Don’t use Microsoft Word, use Latex

The school has a template, go and download it at a certain website

Don’t worry about it! By the time you are ready to write, you will know what to use!

You have to start worrying about it, and not wait till you have done your drafts and at the stage of formatting it for submission. Getting the thesis submission ready is very time consuming, especially if you have many chapters, references, figures, tables appendixes.

I have even seen people writing each chapter in a separate document, after failing to “number” them correctly. But that won’t easily solve your problems, as then you will need to adjust all the pages at the footer when you edit something else on another document.

If you could start early, make a template and save it under document templates. This is something that you could use not only for the thesis, but also your submissions etc.

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