Comments on: Table of Contents in Microsoft Word http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2007/03/27/table-of-contents-in-microsoft-word/ Ramblings of a Christian Mathematician and Bioinformaticist Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:33:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Stephen Uitti http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2007/03/27/table-of-contents-in-microsoft-word/comment-page-1/#comment-19074 Stephen Uitti Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:02:49 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2007/03/27/table-of-contents-in-microsoft-word/#comment-19074 When i bought Word in 1988, i also read the manual. When when i upgraded to Word 4.0 for the Mac, i read it again. But these days, they put Word in front of me, but no manual in sight. ToC generation isn't terribly new, which is why i know about it. At home, i now use OpenOffice, and am experimenting with AbiWord. I've not looked for a manual yet. Soon. When i bought Word in 1988, i also read the manual. When when i upgraded to Word 4.0 for the Mac, i read it again. But these days, they put Word in front of me, but no manual in sight. ToC generation isn’t terribly new, which is why i know about it.

At home, i now use OpenOffice, and am experimenting with AbiWord. I’ve not looked for a manual yet. Soon.

]]> By: Robert http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2007/03/27/table-of-contents-in-microsoft-word/comment-page-1/#comment-15200 Robert Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:48:15 +0000 http://blog.drscottfranklin.net/2007/03/27/table-of-contents-in-microsoft-word/#comment-15200 This year I incorporated a two-day LaTeX boot camp in to all my sophomore and upper-division math courses and required students to use LaTeX for all their important assignments. We used MiKTeX and TexNicCenter. They grumbled at first but now every one of them swears they'll never go back to MS Equation Editor, and they do very good work with LaTeX. So it's good to find ways to make MS Word do stuff, but I'd also encourage you to really push your students into using LaTeX. I don't see why even freshmen couldn't learn the basics if they have a nice WYSIWYG environment to work with like TeXNicCenter. This year I incorporated a two-day LaTeX boot camp in to all my sophomore and upper-division math courses and required students to use LaTeX for all their important assignments. We used MiKTeX and TexNicCenter. They grumbled at first but now every one of them swears they’ll never go back to MS Equation Editor, and they do very good work with LaTeX.

So it’s good to find ways to make MS Word do stuff, but I’d also encourage you to really push your students into using LaTeX. I don’t see why even freshmen couldn’t learn the basics if they have a nice WYSIWYG environment to work with like TeXNicCenter.

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