folk are having pretty good luck with oo.
On Dec 24, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
Hi Scott
I've tried open office a bit and it looks to me like you'd probably
have better luck with microsnot word. Have you tried nisus writer
express? I'm not exactly familiar with all the requirements for
writing an APA paper, but if the main place where you are losing
points is in the bibliography, an if the only matter is indentations,
you might just try writing the bib separately in textedit. It won't
do any smart tag stuff without you knowing and you could just manually
format each entry with whatever it requires.
That said it sounds like you'd be doing a lot more work than yu need.
If you are seriously going to be writing papers like this for years to
come, it might be worth the time invested in learning how to typeset
with LaTeX. I am like 98 percent confident that LaTeX could make
formatting an APA paper a trivial process if you don't mind a few
lines of code here and there. Again, sure it may not be easy in the
beginning, but if you are going to be writing papers like this for a
number of years, it might be worth it in the long run.
Regards
Justin Harford
On Dec 24, 2008, at 8:03 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Folks,
I recently completed a class that requires writing a number of
documents in the APA format. Now I will have a number of courses
requiring this for years to come. THis is my punishment for waiting
to finish my degree twenty years late. Be that as it may, I am
getting my ass kicked and loosing points because the crap called
Microsnot Word is very tricky to work with in setting up an APA
formated paper. I'm mostly getting beak up over the reference page.
So, I'd like to use Open Office or something that will get the
damned paper in order so I won't loose points in the future. I can
ask my co-worker to format the document, but i really shouldn't have
to do this. I tried taking an empty document she used to just put
the text in and my understanding was the formatting would hold. That
apparently is not exactly true and I tried like hell to follow the
APA format standards and take care to indent etc. However, I
obviously did not get it right and so I've lost a few points. Ok, so
as of week 4 it looks like I'm running a 97.21% out of a possible
100 and I am still waiting for the final week's grade, but loosing
those points over formatting really upsets me to no end. Those
should be giveme points.
So, any ideas are really welcome.
tnx
Scott Howell
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