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Brentwood Bay, Burnaby, Comox, Coquitlam, Courtney,
Deep Cove, Duncan, Fort Nelson, Fort St. John,
Gabriola Island, Hazelton, The Highlands,
Langley, Kamloops, Kelowna, The Kootneys, Maple
Ridge, Mission, Nakusp, Nanaimo, Nelson, New
Westminster, North Delta, North Vancouver, Okanagan
Falls, Pemberton, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Prince
Rupert, Richmond, Saanich, Salt Spring Island,
Sidney, Squamish, The Sunshine Coast, Surrey,
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Word Templates
created for almost any purpose created in MS Word
(theses, letterheads, memos, reports, brochures,
newsletters, books, etc.)
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Dreamweaver Templates created for websites
with Cascading
Style Sheets (CSS) for easy and consistent formatting
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Example: A Graduate Thesis/Dissertation Template
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Creating a Graduate Thesis Template began
when
graduate students asked for help in formatting their theses/dissertations according to SFU's Library
and APA requirements. The template has been used to format
theses for students in a number of SFU departments as well as other universities and,
since 1990, development has continued as required.
All sections of a
thesis are incorporated in the thesis template: the frontal pages (Title Page, Approval Page, Abstract, Acknowlegements, Dedication, Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures), the
Chapters, References, and Appendices. Through formatting
headings using styles, the biggest advantage of such a template is
that the Table of
Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures, and any other lists (e.g.,
List of Maps, Photos, Illustrations, etc.) are generated, and can be
regenerated, with page numbers.
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Other advantages to using such a template: |
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Users may simply edit without being
concerned about having to format their documents—which is
accomplished by simply applying styles to the paragraphs. The
styles give the document its uniformity and whitespace by providing
the necessary fonts and their attributes (size, colour,
italics, bold, etc.) and indentations and spacing between paragraphs.
For example: chapter headings include a page break before them,
other
heading styles are forced to stay with the following paragraph, and
each style is preformatted with the necessary before- and after-spacing; blockquotes are indented on the left and,
if preferred, on the right
as well; each reference appears as a hanging indent; and footnotes
are formatted so they stay together on the same page. When a style's
format is modified and updated, all paragraphs to which that style
is applied changes to the newer format. Updating one style on which other styles are based modifies those
styles as well so, in a well-developed template, the necessary
changes to one base-style (e.g., the Table-Row style) will be
applied to all other styles which also require that change (e.g.,
other table styles based on the Table-Row style). Further to this, documents that are created with the template also convert well into PDF
so, no matter where they are printed, the text/tables/figures (etc.)
do not shift across/between pages.
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The adjacent Table of Contents
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Thesis Template workshop. |
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