Dana Miranda is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance® who's been writing about money management and small business operations for more than a decade. She writes the newsletter Healthy Rich about ...

If you're preparing an assignment, essay, or research paper, you've probably heard your teacher say something like, “Make sure you follow the correct format APA or MLA.” And that’s where the confusion ...

Many of us have opened student writing, ready to grade, only to be met with a messy document—wild fonts, inconsistent sizes, and seemingly randomly placed citations and links. This mash-up of ...

In the last article on this topic, I wrote about formatting individual words in Microsoft Word. In this article, we will explore how to take advantage of, or work around, Microsoft Word’s Automatic ...

“Research is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought", said Albert Szent-Györgyi, the famous Hungarian pharmacologist. Research drives societal progress by ...

The line spacing definition refers to the amount of blank space between lines of text in a document. If you're using Microsoft Word or another word processing tool, you can customize how much space ...

Double-spacing is a great way to organize your word processing, and an excellent optimization that is built into most word processing tools. And whenever we hear “word processing,” one of the first ...

Weak vertical spacing created using v(2em, weak: true) does not seem to collapse as expected. Consider the following minimal example. In particular, the vertical space after the Introduction section ...

The steps to writing a paper in MLA format are not difficult. Then you can move on to writing the content of your paper without worry. This step-by-step guide will give you all the MLA formatting you ...