Word for the Wise

Word for the Wise is a guide to preparing academic documents, especially scientific documents, with Microsoft Word. It is perfect for preparing a thesis, dissertation or paper.

Download the book

You can get Word for the Wise in various formats:

• As an Adobe Acrobat PDF format book
• As the original LaTeX file which requires these tar'd and gzip'd images and uses the packages
  • graphicx,
  • titlesec,
  • titletoc,
  • makeindex and various
  • fonts and, if you want to generate the pdf file yourself,
  • pdflatex

Word for the Wise is © Damian Counsell 1998-2000 and is released under the Open Content licence.

Download the sample files

There are various sample files which are used to illustrate some of the main principles in the book.

I have tried to provide them in lots of different formats.

They are available...

• ...as Windows files for Word 6.0 and later:
  • LIFE.DOC,
  • DEATH.DOC,
• and EndNote for Windows
  • hobbit.enl,
• As Mac files for Word 5.0 and later:
  • LIFE,
  • DEATH,
• As Mac files for Word 6.0 and later:
  • LIFE,
  • DEATH,
• and EndNote for Mac
  • hobbit,
  • MEDLINE_NLM,

Mail me if you have any problems with the sample files or would like another file format to be included.