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Project Title:	Insert Project Title
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Center for Transportation Research

The University of Texas at Austin

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Austin, TX 78701

http://ctr.utexas.edu/

Disclaimers

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Table of Contents

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Chapter 1. A Chapter Title	4

1.1 Welcome	4

1.2 How to Use Styles	4

1.2.1 Word 2010 Instructions	4

1.3 Styles Used in the CTR Research Report Template	4

1.4 Applying the Template to an Existing Document	4

1.5 For Further Assistance with the Template	4

Chapter 2. A Chapter Title (This is Heading 1 Style)	4

2.1 Note to Authors (This is Heading 2 Style)	4

2.2 Heading 2 Style Looks Like This	4

2.2.1 Heading 3 Style Looks Like This	4

Heading 4 Style Looks Like This	4

2.3 Another Heading 2	4

References	4

Appendix A. Appendix Sample	4

List of Figures

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Figure 1.1: The Styles group on the Home tab	4

Figure 2.1: This is a figure caption in “CTR Figure Caption” style	4

Figure A.1: This is “CTR Figure Caption Appendix” style	4

List of Tables

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Table 2.1: This is a table title in “CTR Table Title” style.	4

Table 2.2: This is another table title in “CTR Table Title” style	4

Table A.1: This is “CTR Table Title Appendix” style	4

A Chapter Title

Welcome

Welcome to the CTR Research Report Template. This template provides a simple structure for writing and formatting research reports, using Microsoft Word styles. You will find contact information for help with this template at the end of this chapter. Chapter 2 illustrates styles used in the report template.

How to Use Styles

Microsoft Word “styles” are different types of formatting (font type and size, line spacing, justification, etc.) saved and named so that you may easily apply the same type of formatting throughout a document. The following sections describe how to access and use styles in Word 2010.

Word 2010 Instructions

To apply styles to your text, go to the Styles group on the Home tab. You can quickly apply a style from the gallery of styles—just select the text you’d like to apply a style to, and click on the style name. To see a complete list of the available styles in your document, click the Styles Dialog Box Launcher by hitting the little arrow in the bottom right corner of the Styles group (circled in red in Figure 1.1).

The Styles group on the Home tab

Styles Used in the CTR Research Report Template

Listed below are the template styles in the order they appear in this document. The next chapter illustrates the context in which each of these styles are used. Note the following bulleted list uses the “Bulleted List” style for formatting, a style you may find useful.

CTR DOT fields (used in the DOT form)

CTR Front Matter Title (used for the titles of front matter sections such as Disclaimers and Acknowledgements)

Heading 1 (use this for your chapter titles to take advantage of the autonumbering of Headings 2 and 3)

Heading 2

Heading 3

Heading 4

Heading 5

CTR body text

Bulleted list

CTR Equation

CTR Equation Def

CTR Blockquote

CTR Table Title

CTR Figure Caption

CTR Back Matter Title

CTR Reference Text

CTR Appendix Subhead

CTR Table Title Appx (appendix)

CTR Figure Caption Appx (appendix)

Applying the Template to an Existing Document

The most painless way to use this template and its styles is to just save this file as your own Word document and replace the existing content with your content. However, you might have a report you’ve already started that you’d like to use these styles in. Here you’ll learn how to apply this template’s styles to an existing file.

Your first step will be to activate Word’s Developer tab (if you don’t already see Developer among the tabs running along the top of the Word window). It’s pretty easy, though: just go to the File tab (leftmost tab up top), click on Options in the vertical menu on the left to open the Word Options dialog box. In that dialog box, click on Customize Ribbon. When presented with the Customize Ribbon options (which will appear in a column on the right side of the dialog box), click on the Developer box to make it appear among the tabs that run along the top of the screen.

Now that you can access the Developer tab, go there and click on Document Template (second option from the right end). Under Templates, click in the empty box at the top to browse to the location of the template file, and then click Attach after checking the box to “Automatically update document styles.” Now all the CTR report template styles will be loaded into your document.

For Further Assistance with the Template

Contact Maureen Kelly at 512.232-3128 or at maureenk@mail.utexas.edu.

A Chapter Title (This is Heading 1 Style)

Note to Authors (This is Heading 2 Style)

< Authors: Please use the predefined style called “Heading 1” for the titles of chapters, as above. You can apply the “Heading 1” style by placing the cursor anywhere in the chapter title text and then selecting the “Heading 1” style from the style pull-down menu. When you apply the “Heading 1” style to the chapter title, it should automatically number itself properly, even when you add chapters before or after it later. >

Heading 2 Style Looks Like This

“CTR Body Text” style text looks like this. “CTR Body Text” style text looks like this. “CTR Body Text” style text looks like this.

Here we have an equation using “CTR Equation” style:

(2.1)

where,

x	=	1.23

y	=	2.23

z	=	3.33

How to Insert a Table for Use as a “Text Box” MS Word’s Text Box function has been known to produce some problems. Another way to create the effect of a text box without actually using a text box is to insert a table (of just one cell) and place text inside it. If you want text to wrap around it, go into Table Tools/Layout and click on Properties. In the Properties dialog box, select the Around option in the “Text wrapping” section.

Heading 3 Style Looks Like This

“CTR Body Text” style text looks like this. “CTR Body Text” style text looks like this. “CTR Body Text” style text looks like this.

This is “CTR Block Quote” style. This is “CTR Block Quote” style. This is “CTR Block Quote” style. This is “CTR Block Quote” style. This is “CTR Block Quote” style. (Jones 2003, p. 15)

Heading 4 Style Looks Like This

“CTR body text” style text looks like this. “CTR body text” style text looks like this. Heading 4” style text looks like this. “CTR body text” style text looks like this.

Heading 5 Style Looks Like This

“CTR Body Text” style text looks like this. “CTR Body Text” style text looks like this. “CTR Body Text” style text looks like this.

Another Heading 2

“CTR Body Text” style text looks like this. “CTR Body Text” style text looks like this. “CTR Body Text” style text looks like this.

This is a table title in “CTR Table Title” style.

Number	Letter Category	Up Down Category
1	A	Up
2	B	Down

This is another table title in “CTR Table Title” style

Number	Letter Category	Up Down Category
1	A	Up
2	B	Down

This is a figure caption in “CTR Figure Caption” style

References

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< This is an example of the “Reference Text” predefined style for references. This is an example of the “Reference Text” predefined style for references. >

< This is an example of the “Reference Text” predefined style for references. This is an example of the “Reference Text” predefined style for references. >

< This is an example of the “Reference Text” predefined style for references. This is an example of the “Reference Text” predefined style for references. >

< This is an example of the “Reference Text” predefined style for references. This is an example of the “Reference Text” predefined style for references. >

< This is an example of the “Reference Text” predefined style for references. This is an example of the “Reference Text” predefined style for references. >

< This is an example of the “Reference Text” predefined style for references. This is an example of the “Reference Text” predefined style for references. >

Appendix A. Appendix Sample

< Authors: Please use the predefined style called “CTR Back Matter Title” for the titles of appendices and other back matter titles, as above (“Appendix A”). This will ensure that the unnumbered title will appear properly in the Table of Contents later. >

CTR Appendix Subhead Style

For appendix body text, simply use the “CTR Body Text” style.

Table A.1: This is “CTR Table Title Appendix” style

Number	Letter Category	Up Down Category
1	A	Up
2	B	Down

Figure A.1: This is “CTR Figure Caption Appendix” style