Positively Vicious Hacks for Thesis Writing in Word

[@girlsjustwannahavefun1317]

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!

[@DZsWill12321]

The Figure thing has literally changed my life, THANKS

[@therossbennett]

Oh, my god. I LOVE YOU!!!!! 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_30x]

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!

[@rikudoukarthik]

👌🏽

[@golnazmohebbi9907]

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.

[@marianaluciavillegasmonroy6502]

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.

[@guebbouh2020]

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

[@tatianafernandez1464]

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

[@carlarivero9508]

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

[@AmandaFreitas1998]

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-ox1fi]

Thanks Lucy! this is brilliant as usual

[@glorianakalema1672]

It was fun and educative thanks Lucy

[@brighttooth3592]

Thank you

[@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

[@acole5975]

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.

[@darkdepth1991]

😍😍 You saved me so much time 😍😍

[@ashnabarzngy9581]

Thank you sooooooooooo much

[@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.

[@israamuhsen5493]

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[@VegetarianFeast]

Very useful. Thank you.

[@BahaaSharaf]

Ctrl + alt + V: Paste unformatted for windows

[@fadoobaba]

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

[@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,

[@guerht]

I must say I disagree with your statement that people who use LaTeX don't use Word because they don't know how to use Word. I'm fairly sure if people were determined enough to learn how to use Word to the fullest extent, they would be able to, but there are a few problems with Word. For starters, the (.docx) Word format is proprietary and is supported on very few programs and operating systems. These programs are not free to use and have quite a heavy price tag. I guess many institutions provide free licenses to students, but this isn't always the case. If the counter-argument is that you could use .odt files instead for compatibility across all word processing programs, I would take that as a valid point. With LaTeX though, you could write .tex files on just about any machine with your favourite text editor. For people who want to write their thesis on different devices, this would be a quite a big factor to consider. Another point I would like to make is that it's very easy to create specific diagrams, etc. with LaTeX. I've had an enjoyable time using Tikz, which is a package in LaTeX, to create very clean automata diagrams with nice formatting. If you need to create a very specific diagram, chances are, LaTeX will most likely have a package that will allow you create one. Word doesn't have good support over this. Perhaps the best thing about LaTeX is that it goes very well with version control systems like git. This makes it very easy to save histories of your draft online and merge old files if needed. I'm pretty sure most people probably learned how to use Word before learning how to use LaTeX and yet prefer using LaTeX anyway (despite its steep learning curve). To each his own though I guess.

[@KAIZORIANEMPIRE]

@@guerht good points,

[@SG-lj8uu]

Great tips! :))

[@NoName-xf8hy]

You're reaction🖤🖤

[@ranafaisal1172]

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

[@zalibecquerel3463]

I'm currently (forcing myself) to do all my postgrad note taking in R Markdown. Was a short, sharp learning curve, but I feel like i'm one of the "cool kidz" for not using Word, without having to go nuts with all that LaTeX mess. #howdoyoudofellowkids

[@greenheaven_30x]

Man ..u sud pass on some wisdom ..I tried but back to word as the thesis submission is very near #afterphd may be!

[@laraibliaqat8276]

U r sho cute🥰this vedio helped me alot

[@arijitdatta3361]

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

[@PriDrummond]

Word is accepting the Latex code to write the equations. I use both depending on the professor I am working with.

[@ahmadrizwan3211]

Hi❤

[@bishopscore]

I came here to convince myself that learning LAY-TECH is not worth the headache!

[@curraheewolf]

You're so beautiful. I like watching your videos.

[@ivettgabriella]

Paste in Windows: Control v