Positively Vicious Hacks for Thesis Writing in Word

Memorable shortcuts. Auto-updating contents pages. Minimal toolbars. Microsoft Word is just fine for writing your thesis/dissertation in - so long as you remember to savesavesave.

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My name is Lucy Kissick, I'm a PhD student at the University of Oxford and I'm a chemist in the nuclear industry, and Pluto not being a planet is honestly the least interesting fact about this worldlet, can we talk instead about its glaciers made of frozen air.

[girlsjustwannahavefun]

In the last year of my PhD and I wish I found this earlier! MUCH more helpful than soo many other tutorials out there. Short and sweet but packed with information, I will never struggle with figures and tables again. Improves readability so very much! Thank you!

[DZsWill]

The Figure thing has literally changed my life, THANKS <3

[therossbennett]

Oh, my god. I LOVE I've been using auto caption numbering for tables and figures and extras for a long time, but I didn't know about cross referencing them to make the references automatically renumber if the articles were renumbered. Thank you thank you thank you!

[greenheaven_x]

Lucy ! ...this was a "deed in need" - writing like a marathon these days, no doubt your tips gonna save a few days. Good luck for Post doc!

[tatianafernandez]

at 2:56, for pasting text without a format while using windows, ctrl + shift + v should work :)

[golnazmohebbi]

I've been using all these things in word forever, but never used the cross reference thing for the figures and tables and that just saved me future headache, so thank you.

[marianaluciavillegasmonroy]

OOOHH MY GOOOOD! hahah thank you so much. This goes directly to my PhD list on youtube and shared with my friends who are now writing and editing.
I'm using Scrivener for writing up until before I send for comments from advisors when I get it to word for final editing, adding footnotes and format as I knoooow table of contents is going to be a nightmare.

[carlarivero]

Thank you so much for your videos Lucy, you are truly an inspiration!

[guebbouh]

Not only your thoughts that I admire, doctor, but also your eyes!

[AmandaFreitas]

Thanks Lucy those were very helpful tips. I tried to learn Latex but I just keep coming back to Word. I knew some of the tips you showed, and for generating references I also use mendeley extension for Word. Maybe one day I will learn Latex, but as I dont write complex math formulas I am good with Word

[Hannah-oxfi]

Thanks Lucy! this is brilliant as usual

[fadoobaba]

2:59, Paste from source to notepad then copy and paste to word document is what I do

[BahaaSharaf]

Ctrl + alt + V: Paste unformatted for windows

[acole]

Setting an autosave for every 30 minutes can be extremely useful but frustrating a sit can sometimes interrupt you. Pick your poison; either autosave or do it manually but then remember to to actually save new versions.

[carlosbornes]

Just to add another advise use the auto save function of word, connect it to onedrive and it will automatically save each 30 seconds I think.

But yeah use LaTeX

[israamuhsen]

Hello Dear
I want learning how use vector image converter

[SCanchoGonz]

Select whole text and press F9 3 times and the whole document will be updated with figures and captions :D, you need to do this process twice.

[KAIZORIANEMPIRE]

The thing is i did the same as you, the issue is people that say latex is better are the people that dn't know how to use word. word is intuitive but there are specific rules on how to do line spacing or how to structure the images etc without them running around. The problem is people don't know words front end pseduo code, lol,

on other news passed viva on 5th got minor corrections and will get it done in the next month and a half God speed Lucy on your viva,

[ranafaisal]

Please make a video on how to publish papers with less innovation

[arijitdatta]

I am curious to know how you handled the mathematical equations in word