HOW TO MAKE THE MAIN TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Open
your paper using the open office.
2. Highlight
and assign “heading 1” to all the main parts of your paper like the
introduction, materials and methods, RRL, results and discussion and other.
3. Highlight
and assign “heading 2” to the sub parts of your paper like for example under
your introduction you have the background of the study, significance, time and
place, scope and limitations.
1. After
this, go to the page where you want to place your table of contents and go to
insert>indexes and tables>indexes and tables>title (table of
contents)>type (table of contents)>OK.
1. Right
click the word “table of contents”> update index/table.
2. This
is how your table of contents will look like.
HOW TO MAKE LIST OF TABLES
1. Again,
go to the next page where you want to put your list of tables, go to
insert>indexes and tables>indexes and tables>title (list of
tables)>type (index of tables)>OK.
1. Go
to the tables in your paper (usually, tables are located in the results and
discussion). Highlight the title>copy>right click anywhere inside the
table itself>caption>paste title>category (table)> separator
(.<space>)>position (above)>OK.
1. Do
this to all the tables, then go back to your list of tables page>right click
the word “list of tables”> update index/table.
2. This
is how it will look like.
HOW TO MAKE LIST OF FIGURES
1. Again,
go to the next page where you want to put your list of figures, go to
insert>indexes and tables>indexes and tables>title (list of
figures)>type (illustration index)>OK.
1. Go
to the figures in your paper (usually, figures are located in the methodology
and results and discussion). Highlight the title>copy>right click the
figure itself>caption>paste title>category (illustration)> separator
(.<space>)>position (below)>OK.
1. Do
this to all the figures, then go back to your list of figures’ page>right
click the word “list of figures”> update index/table.
2. This
is how it will look like.
HOW TO MAKE LIST OF APPENDIX
1. Again,
go to the next page where you want to put your list of appendix, go to
insert>indexes and tables>indexes and tables>title (list of
appendix)>type (illustration index)>OK.
2. Go
to the appendices in your paper. Highlight the title>copy>right click the
figure itself>caption>paste title>category (illustration or table)>
separator (.<space>)>position (above)>OK.
3. Do
this to all the appendix, then go back to your list of appendix’s page>right
click the word “list of appendix”> update index/table.
4. This
is how it will look like.
HOW TO MAKE LIST OF APPENDIX
FIGURES
1. Again,
go to the next page where you want to put your list of appendix figure, go to
insert>indexes and tables>indexes and tables>title (list of appendix
figure)>type (illustration index)>OK.
2. Go
to the appendix figures in your paper. Highlight the title>copy>right
click the figure itself>caption>paste title>category
(illustration)> separator (.<space>)>position (below)>OK.
3. Do
this to all the appendix figures, then go back to your list of appendix
figures’ page>right click the word “list of appendix figure”> update
index/table.
4. This
is how it will look like.
HOW TO MAKE BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Again,
go to the next page where you want to put your bibliography, go to
insert>indexes and tables>indexes and tables>title
(bibliography)>type (bibliography)>OK.
2. Go
to your bibliography, click tools>bibliography database, and insert all the
available information of your reference.
3. Go
back to your bibliography page>right click the word “bibliography”>
update index/table.
4. Now
if you want to enter it again to your paper, find the authors in your paper and
replace them with your recorded data of that author in your bibliography
database.
5. Delete
the name, go to insert>indexes and tables>bibliography entry> find the
author>insert.
6. Do
this to all the authors listed in your paper.
7. This
is how it will look like.
HOW TO MAKE LIST OF INDEX
1. Again,
go to the next page where you want to put your list of index, go to
insert>indexes and tables>indexes and tables>title (list of index)>type
(alphabetical index)>OK.
2. Go
to your paper and highlight the word that you want to put as an index.
3. Go to
insert button>indexes and tables>entry>the highlighted word should
appear in the entry space>insert. Do this to all the words you want to be
seen in the index.
4. Go
back to your list of index’ page>right click the word “list of index”>
update index/table.
5. Now you
want to alphabetize your index and show it to a minimal view for easy
searching, so you go right click the word list of index>edit>click
entries>alphabetical delimiter>then go to columns> choose 2
columns>OK.
6. This
is how it will look like.
You won’t worry anymore to
your table of contents because you already have a control to the different
positions and pages of your paper. Very useful!
