Dissertation Template Version 1.2.2 (video)

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We have another version of the template (version 1.2.2) that incorporates two very slight changes.


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Transliteration for the Dissertation Template (With Some Help from AutoCorrect)

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For some Old Testament research papers you may find it necessary to include transliterated text for ancient languages such as Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ugaritic, etc. In that case, thanks to the Tyndale Unicode Keyboard for Hebrew and Greek, finding a way to input the extra characters you need is almost, but not quite, elementary. Read on to find out the best way I know to set up your system for easy entry of transliterated text for ANE languages.

By the way, part of the solution to the problem involves using AutoCorrect in MS Word. So as a bonus, you’ll also learn a trick for easily entering words you use frequently.


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Dissertation Template Version 1.2 (video)

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There is a new version of the MS Word template for graduate research papers at TEDS.
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Dissertation Template: Introduction

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Introducing the MS Word template for writing graduate research papers (dissertations, theses) at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
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Dissertation Template: Table of Contents – Custom Levels (video)

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The table of contents is currently set to include chapter titles and two levels of headings (levels 1 and 2 subheadings). If you want, you can very easily change this to include the minimum allowed by the TIU Style Guide (level 1 subheading), or you can include all the subheadings you want. This tutorial will show you how.
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Dissertation Template: Table of Contents–Basics (video)

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Once you’ve finished up the dissertation one of the last things you’ll want to do is prepare the table of contents. If you’ve faithfully used the styles (Level 1, 2, … subheadings) throughout the document, then creating the table of contents is very easy. This tutorial will walk you through the steps of
getting all the headings in the table (one click!) and then polishing it up for printing.
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Dissertation Template: Rearrange the Quick Style Gallery (video)

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I’ve organized the quick style gallery so that the styles I thought would be most used are up toward the front. But, for example, maybe you don’t use Greek very much and you wish some other styles were in that first pane. Here’s how to rearrange the order of the styles as they appear in the quick style gallery.
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Dissertation Template: Browsing by Style (video)

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Browse through your document moving from one instance of a particular formatting style to the next. For example, if you have inline notes in your document that are all formatted according to the style “Note” then you can use this technique to move through your document from note to note.
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Dissertation Template: Create a New Style (video)

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In this video tutorial I explain how to create a new style and add it to the quick style gallery. 
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Dissertation Template: The Quick Style Gallery (video)

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This video tutorial gives a brief introduction to the Quick Style Gallery and shows how to access other pre-defined styles that are not in the QS Gallery. It will also show you how to add or remove styles from the QS Gallery.
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