REFERENCE TAB: In this article we will show you how to create a reference list using Word 2010. We will also show you how to share you reference with your peers and how to create your own customized reference style. Creating References Microsoft Reference function is accessible from the reference tab. Word 2010 comes with a list of default referencing style. Choose the referencing style that you want to use. Click on the ‘Insert Citation’ button to open the add citation window. Word 2010 allow us to add different source type such as ‘Journal Article’ for our essay.
Click on the insert citation button to view a list of your citation and click any of them to create an inline citation in your essay. You can create a bibliography page by clicking on the ‘Bibliography’ button. Sharing Your Reference List Microsoft Word 2010 save your references under %APPDATA%MicrosoftBibliographySources. xml. Open your command line and type echo %APPDATA%. This will show you where windows store your APPDATA. In my case Microsoft Word 2010 store my reference list under C:UserszainulAppDataRoamingMicrosoftBibliographySources. xml. Remember that this file will not exist unless you create a reference list.
You can copy this XML file to use your references in different computers. You can also copy other references into this XML file. We advise that you should back up Source. xml file periodically so you will not loose your reference list. To merge other references into your reference list just copy any entry inside the <b:source> into the other Source. xml file. Just make sure that the <b:Tag> contains a unique value. Creating Custom Reference Style We can create our own referencing style by creating custom XSL files under ‘C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14BibliographyStyle’.
For those with exceptional XSL skills you can read Microsoft Word 2010 blog to learn how to create custom referencing style. One of the challenge in creating our own XSL file for Microsoft word is that the XSL file itself is quite complicated and it might just be more productive to download a set of custom reference style from bibword and place the content of the zip file under ‘C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice14BibliographyStyle’ and restart your Microsoft Word. You should see some new reference style from your Word 2010. MAILINGS TAB:
Word 2010 includes Mail Merge feature, which enables user to create documents (Letter, Emails, Fax etc) that are essentially the same but contains unique elements such as recipient Name, Address, Contact No, City, State, etc. It helps user to create a document for multiple recipients more easily by just selecting recipient names and choosing the document. Personal details of the respective recipient will be automatically added in the document which prevents users to write each recipient’s personal info in every document, eventually saving a lot of time.
This post will cover how to use this feature through a simple wizard. Launch Word 2010, navigate to Mailings tab, and from Start Mail Merge options, click Step by Step Mail Merge Wizard. This will bring up Mail Merge dialog at the side of the Word document window, here you can specify type of document you want to create, we will select Letters, click Next:Starting document from the bottom of the dialog. In this step, you will be provided with different options to create Letters, we will choose simple procedure by selecting by template. Click Select template.
This will bring up Select template dialog, choose a suitable template. We will be using Median Lettertemplate. Click OK to continue. At the left side of the window you can see the template is imported into document, from right-pane, clickNext: Select recipients. In this step, you can choose different options to import recipient list, we will select an existing list, hit Browse to import desired recipients list. We will be using recipients list created in Excel 2010. The name of the worksheet is Mail, which we will import in to Word Mail Merge.
Choose an Excel worksheet, click Open to import. Select Table dialog will appear, now choose the worksheet which contains required data, if first row contains column headings, then enable First row of data contains column headers option, and click OK. You will see the Mail worksheet in the Mail Merge Recipients dialog. Here you can filter down the recipients on the basis of column headings. If we want to send letters to the recipients living in city Akron. We will select Akron from City drop-down options. Upon click, it will show only the recipients living in Akron.
Here you can also perform different actions over the list such as; Sort, Filter, Find duplicates, Find recipients, and validate address. Click OK to proceed further. Now navigate to Mailings tab, and click Address Block. You will reach Insert Address Block dialog, from Specify address elements, choose format in which you want to show recipient name. Under Preview you can see the preview of the changes that affects. UnderCorrect problems, click Match Fields to insert new field in the letter, as we want to include address of the recipient.
Match Fields dialog will appear, now from Address 1 options select Street. That will include the name of the street. You can also include other fields if required. Click OK to continue. You will see the address is added in to the format as shown the screenshot below. Click OK to continue. Now we will customize the greeting message, for that navigate to Mailings tab, and click Greeting Line. In Insert Greeting Line dialog, you can choose desired greeting format from Greeting Line format. UnderGreeting line for invalid recipient names choose the format for unknown recipients.
Under Preview, it show the preview of of the changes you made. Click OK to continue. Now to make AddressBlock more prominent, navigate to Home and apply color and font styles over it. Navigate to Mailings tab, and from Finish & Merge menu, click Edit Individual Documents. It will bring Merge to New Document dialog, you can choose Current record, we will select All to view all the recipients. Click OK to show the letter of each recipient. Now as you can see in the screenshot below, Mail Merge created letters of each recipients residing in city Akron with their respective street names.
