Thread: Patience is a virtue ..... they reckon

When my long suffering wife did one of her degrees, after submitting a paper for examination, her examiner contacted her and confessed that my wife knew more about the subject than the examiner.

When all this is over, do you get to go to schoolie's, Lionel?

Getting rid of track changes is a black art. I have known people who use the program day in day out who cannot do it and present documents the same as you did

Can be an interesting read when is from a client

Hello All,

A quick update, I just sent a fully proof-read copy of my thesis to my Principal Supervisors for their perusal. This perusal stage represents the last opportunity for anyone to make suggestions for possible amendments before the thesis is submitted for examination.

It took 10 consecutive days ranging from 9:00 am to 12:00 am, with a couple of 2:00 ams and a 4:00 am thrown into the mix. I had a couple of days off and the final push was from 8:30 am to 11:15 pm. This marked the 'send' button being pressed and a couple of copies of the tome being sent to Principal Supervisor One and Principal Supervisor Two.

I am now off to bed. Tomorrow will include tinkering with Land Rovers and ride-on lawn mowers.... weeeeee.

Now it is time to celebrate reaching a thesis milestone... Youtube ... Queen... Another One Bites the Dust...

Kind regards
Lionel

OK, well done. However, are you ever going to enlighten us as to what your PHD will be in? Just askin'.

Originally Posted by Tins

OK, well done. However, are you ever going to enlighten us as to what your PHD will be in? Just askin'.

Hello Tins,

Since you asked...

Representations of Autistic selfhood in everyday life: Towards a prototypical approach

Kind regards
Lionel

Hello All,

I sent the thesis to the Principal Supervisors last night while it had a known bug in it. The labels for the appendices kept appearing in the Table of Contents. This is a place where such labels should not appear. I have been wracking my brain trying to solve this problem for over a week.

I had followed all the online suggestions about making a separate style and labelling it "Appendix". I had linked it to a Level 5 heading after making sure no other Level 5 headings were used within the whole document. I then went to the References > Table of Contents > block text from appearing in ToC and selected Level 5. This should effectively put a fence of exclusion around each and every Level 5 linked content. Well for some strange reason the ToC jumped the fence and corralled all the labels.

After a decent sleep last night I had a bit of a revelation. Since the appendices are located after a continuous section break they are isolated at the end of the document. There is no form of page numbering after the appendices to effect the rest of the document.

I opened a new blank document, hit Enter a couple of times and put in a hard page break giving me two blank pages. I returned to the main thesis and highlighted and cut all the appendices. These were pasted into page 2 of the second document. I saved the thesis. I updated the ToC and

No appendices labels appeared - hooray!

Now despite Word being able to generate a List of Figures or a List of Tables it does not let you select a List of Appendices. On the second document I used Word's insidious and recalcitrant ability to find appendices labels and I generated my own List of Appendices content.

I cut and pasted all the appendices back into the thesis. I cut and pasted a modified version of the List of Appendices under a previously recognised label in the main ToC. I did not regenerate the main ToC. I pressed save. Problems solved. The supervisory team now has a 100 percent clean document free of lurking issues. Thank Christ!

Kind regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello Tins,

Since you asked...

Representations of Autistic selfhood in everyday life: Towards a prototypical approach

Kind regards
Lionel

What?