Glossary

Formatting terms 

• Styles - the style menu enables you to customise the appearance of your chapter headings and subheadings so that they are applied consistently across a document.
• Navigation pane - enables you to see your document headings, page thumbnails and to search within your document. Allows you to move easily between pages, chapters and subheadings. The navigation pane can be turned on in Word view tab.
• Multilevel lists - numbering formats that can be applied to indicate chapters and subheadings throughout a document. These will be automatically applied to any new text where styles are used. Together with the header styles used in the document, multi-level lists will enable you to create and manage a table of contents.
• Page breaks - applied breaks between pages that can help to manage the content and appearance of your document.
• Section breaks - hard breaks applied in the formatting process to enable different formatting and layouts to be applied to separate pages or sections. Section breaks can be inserted anywhere in the text.
• Headers and footers - spaces on the page above and below the page content. These are visible on the page but are edited separately from the content. They are spaces for displaying document information such as page numbers.
• Front matter - details that come before the substance of a long document (e.g. title page, table of contents, list of tables or figures, acknowledgements). Roman numeral page numbers are usually applied to the front matter in books and theses.
• Table of contents - automated list of document content that can be applied if header styles and multi-level list numbering have been set up. The table of contents can be updated to remove or include chapters as the document is edited.
• Captions - captions can be applied to images (Figures) or Tables in documents. When captions are added using the Word function, they will enable you to set up a List of Tables and a Table of Figures in your document. These can be updated when adding new content. 
• Track changes - use track changes in the Review tab in Microsoft Word to add suggested changes to a document text or formatting. Or, to view, review and edit text and formatting suggestions from collaborators. Track changes are often used in conjunction with the comments function (also found in the Review tab).
• EndNote - reference management software that is integrated into Microsoft Word. References can be managed from within Word by using the EndNote tab in the Word menu. La Trobe provides EndNote software for students and staff.
• ¶ - this symbol can be found in the ribbon at the top of the page in Microsoft Word. It is often referred to as the show/hide icon. It enables you to see the normally invisible formatting information in the document (e.g. page or section breaks, line breaks and spacing).