Microsoft Word has been around for a long time, but until now there was not a book like this one. Why? Because it is challenging to take such a complex subject like creation of scientific and technical documents and express it simply, clearly, concisely, and comprehensively. This book meets this challenge and is the first and the unique one of this kind. The amount of information in this short book (xviii + 162 pages) is unbelievable. It covers all aspects of writing scientific and technical documents - fonts, formatting of ...
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Microsoft Word has been around for a long time, but until now there was not a book like this one. Why? Because it is challenging to take such a complex subject like creation of scientific and technical documents and express it simply, clearly, concisely, and comprehensively. This book meets this challenge and is the first and the unique one of this kind. The amount of information in this short book (xviii + 162 pages) is unbelievable. It covers all aspects of writing scientific and technical documents - fonts, formatting of various text elements using styles, equations, figures and tables, various types of bibliography, generation of contents and indices, various types of page numbering, selected field codes, automation of writing, working with long documents, printing, etc. There is no any other book on Microsoft Word bringing all this information in concise and precise form along with brief explanations from the viewpoint of typesetting. Everything you can possibly think of to do with the Microsoft Word in your scientific or technical document is included and thoroughly explained. One example for all: where else can you find out how you can get your equations numbered automatically along with automatic update of cross-references to them? This is a book which each scientist, student, teacher of engineer, using Microsoft Word either regularly or occasionally, simply must have for creating consistently formatted and nicely looking articles, reports, theses, textbooks or monographs. This book by Igor Podlubny and Katarina Kassayova can undoubtedly be considered as a long-awaited basic reference source for scientific and technical authors using Microsoft Word.
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