General rules Font type and size: Times New Roman, 11 point (AOBodyTxt) Line and paragraph spacing: at least 13 pt Aligning text: Text should be fully justified in all documents
Use • to indicate a space to insert information in a paragraph at a later stage
Never use a full stop at the end of a heading
No space before semicolon, colon, question mark or exclamation mark
Tips & Shortcuts before formatting When you have to use To see if you have hidden spaces, copy/paste, always make sure unnecessary page breaks, etc. use: that :
Tips & Shortcuts before formatting (1) To see House Styles (or any other style) use Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S Use the Format Painter on the or: Home tab to quickly copy formatting. If you want to do it for more than one paragraph, double click it.
Page Breaks (1) Page breaks come in use when you want to After inserting break, double click on the restart or change page numbering Header and Footer from the new page, and deselect Link to Previous. After this step you can start a new page numbering.
Table of contents Step 1: Apply heading styles Select the text you want to include in the table of contents, and then on the Home tab, click a heading style, such as AOHead 1 – if your documents it’s already formatted you don’t need to follow this step.
Table of contents (1) Go to Options > then press Reset from Table of Contents Options Step 2: Add table of contents Go to References > Table of Contents, and then choose Insert Table of Contents from the list.
Search in your list your sequence(s)
and type “1” if you want the information to appear on the first indent, or “2” to appear with one tab to the right, etc.