Increase the quality and consistency of your technical documents Takeaways:

Amplify your document's impact with this specialized guide to Microsoft Word. Writing technical proposals, reports, journal articles, theses, and other complex documents poses unique challenges--from managing formats, figures, and equations to ensuring consistent presentation and voice in a multi-author scenario. In this book, you'll learn from the authors' extensive experience managing the authoring and publication of long-form technical content. And you'll gain specific practices and templates that you can apply right away. Use templates to help simplify the creation of long documents Learn how to set up your own custom templates Create table styles that are effective, attractive, and reusable Compose and edit figures Present simple to complex equations accurately Manage automatic numbering, cross-references, citations, and bibliographies Increase the quality of collaborative writing projects--from formatting, editing, and citations management to commenting and version control.

Alexander Mamishev, PhD, is a professor of electrical engineering, adjunct professor of mechanical engineering, and director of a university laboratory. As author of more than 100 articles and papers, four books, and four patents, he is keenly attuned to the challenges of writing technical documents, particularly in teams.

Murray Sargent, PhD, is a Partner Software Design Engineer at Microsoft. He has written more than 100 articles and six books, and currently focuses on the editing engine and math editing and display capabilities in Microsoft Office.