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Objective
This course will teach some of the basic but underutilized functions in Microsoft Word to increase your productivity, decrease time spent in repetitive tasks, and help you make more readable documents.

Rationale
Have you ever worked on a thesis or term paper containing multiple sections, tables, figures, and citations? Did you ever need to rearrange the structure of your document? Did you spend hours re-numbering your section titles and table/figure captions? This workshop will introduce some of the Word tools designed to increase your productivity, including: styles, captions, cross-referencing, citations/bibliographies, and more.

Can’t make the workshop? The recording for Part 1 from 10/20/2020 is available here and the Recording for Part 2 is available here

Prerequisites	Prerequisites You will need to have these applications installed on your computer: Microsoft Word Mendeley Desktop, see https://www.mendeley.com/autoupdates/installers/1.19.5 for the installer For Mendeley, you will also need to establish a Mendeley account before the workshop starts.
Outline	We will cover these topics and others as time permits: Spell checker (duh!) Use of styles for consistent headings, body, indentations, etc. Style separator for including different styles in the same paragraph Table, figure, and equation captions and cross-referencing Including captions and graphics in tables for easier position management Citations and bibliographies using Mendeley Using RMarkdown for Word output
Materials	Online materials Workshop materials are posted at http://staff.washington.edu/phurvitz/word_for_social_sciences/.