Including Figures in your Thesis

This 10-minute video shows you how you can include image files in your thesis. By using the University template and special styles, you will be able to automate their numbering and references to them in the text, as well as generate tables of figures.

Combining Thesis Chapters but restarting footnote numbering every chapter

This 3-minute video shows you how to combine chapters of your thesis but force footnotes to be numbered from 1 within each chapter.

Assembing Chapters into the Final Thesis

This 17 minute video provides a step-by-step guide to assembling the separate chapters of a thesis into a single document. It shows you how to ensure continuous page numbers and separate chapter headers, as well as auto-generating a table of contents and table of figures.

A guide to making your e-thesis available

This 10-minute presentation introduces e-theses, outlines their benefits and the issues they raise and describes the process requird to create and submit them. It is available as an Adobe Presenter slideshow, as an MP4 video and as a YouTube video with optional captions for accessibility.

Using Heading Styles in the University's thesis template in MS Word 2010

This will probably be the most useful and time-saving thing you can do when writing a thesis. Using Heading styles in your thesis will not only create a series of sequentially numbered, consistently formatted headings and subheadings, it will also allow you to make a refreshable Table of Contents and make the most out of Word’s Navigation Pane. For best viewing Download the video.

Using the Normal and Quotation styles in the University's thesis template for MS Word 2010

The Normal style is used for all your standard paragraphs of text in the thesis and also provides the underlying formatting attributes for other styles. Learn how to use this style. For best viewing Download the video. The Quotation style is used to indicate text that it being quoted in your thesis, see how to use this style.

Tools to use when writing a thesis in Word 2010/2013 (PC)

This collection of videos shows you how to use a range of time-saving tools when writing a thesis in MS Word 2010/2013. See the full SupportGuide at http://www.go.soton.ac.uk/thesispc. There are videos on using styles; creating tables of contents and tables of figures; using the Navigation Pane; using the Browse Object tool and many more. There is an equivelent collection for use with Word 2011 which is for use with Apple computers.

How to add additional chapters to the University's thesis template in MS Word 2010

The University's thesis template comes with 6 main chapter sections. If you wish to add more you'll need to perform a few steps, this video shows you how. For best viewing Download the video.

Using the TitlePage, Contents and Appendix styles in the University's thesis template for MS Word 2010

This video shows you when and how to use the styles TitlePage, Contents and Appendix styles in the University's thesis template in Word 2010. For best viewing Download the video.

Tools to use when writing a thesis using Word 2011 (for Apple computers)

A collection of videos on time saving features when using MS Word 2011 to write a thesis. Learn how to use styles, make table of contents, make table of figures, use the document map, use the browse object tool and keep a count of the words in your file and many more useful features of Word 2011. Word 2011 is for Apple computers, there is a collection of similar video for use with the PC version Word 2010.

University of Southampton thesis template for MS Word 2010/2013 (PC) and 2011 (Mac)

This template is for use with both Word 2010/2013/2016 for PC and Word 2011/2016 for Apple Mac. It provides a structure and format that meets with the University's quality requirements for a thesis such as mirror margins to allow for double-sided printing. It is not compulsory to use the template when writing a thesis, however it's use, in conjunction with the supporting material referenced at the start of the template, will make your thesis well presented and should save you a lot of time and effort. If you have Word 2003 there is a separate template for this version of Word available. Since this is not a University supported version of Office there are no supporting videos.

University of Southampton thesis template for use with MS Word 2003 (PC) and 2004 (Apple)

This template is for use with both Word 2003 (PC) and Word 2004 (Apple Mac). It provides a structure and format that meets with the University's Quality requirements for a thesis. The template has mirror margins set up to allow for double-sided printing. It is not compulsory to use the template when writing a thesis. but it's use will make your thesis well presented and should save you a lot of time and effort. Since Office 2003/2004 are no longer the supported versions of Office used at the University there are no supporting videos.

An introduction to applying styles in the University's thesis template using MS Word 2011 for Apple computers

Keeping formatting consistent is made easy by using Styles and they allow you to change the look of the text formatting throughout your file with a few clicks. This video shows how to apply styles in a MS Word 2011 file. Using Heading styles also allow you to make the most out of Word’s Navigation Pane and Table of Contents features – watch our videos on those too! For best viewing Download the video.

Using the Normal and Quotation styles in the University's thesis template in MS Word 2011 (for Apple computers)

The Normal style is used for all your standard paragraphs of text in the thesis and also provides the underlying formatting attributes for other styles. Learn how to use this style. The Quotation style is used to indicate text that it being quoted in your thesis, see how to use this style. For best viewing Download the video.

Using Heading styles in the University of Southampton's thesis template for MS Word 2011 for Apple computers

This will probably be the most useful and time-saving thing you can do when writing a thesis. Using Heading styles in your thesis will not only create a series of sequentially numbered, consistently formatted headings and subheadings, it will also allow you to make a refreshable Table of Contents and make the most out of Word’s Document Map. For best viewing Download the video.