Microsoft Word for Medical
and Technical Writers

Peter G. Aitken PhD and Maxine M. Okazaki PhD

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The long and complex documents that are often required in medical and technical fields present numerous challenges to writers and their word processing software. Microsoft Word is frequently not up to the task, and writers are often faced with important documents that have become corrupted or developed unexplained formatting problems, leading to lost time and unhappy clients. Microsoft Word for Medical and Technical Writers is not just a Word tutorial. It summarizes the authors' extensive experience with using Word to create regulatory documents, books on information processing, scientific manuscripts, and other long and complex documents. The book presents best practices, bug work-arounds, and proven techniques for using the program to create medical and technical documents while avoiding problems. Rather than trying to cover all of Word, the book focuses on those topics, such as tables, automatic numbering, and styles, that are most likely to cause problems.

The Authors: Peter G. Aitken and Maxine M. Okazaki have a combined total of over 50 years of experience working and writing in scientific, medical, and technical fields. They met while on the faculty at Duke University Medical Center and left to pursue careers in medical writing. Their company, Piedmont Medical Writers LLC (Chapel Hill, NC) prepares regulatory and educational documents for the pharmaceutical industry.

Among The Topics Covered Are:

• Setting Word's options to minimize problems and maximize control over the document.
• Proper use of styles and templates.
• Harness the power of cross-references, fields, and automatic numbering.
• Advanced techniques for tables of contents.
• Using tables efficiently and effectively.
• Working with headers, footers, endnotes, and footnotes.
• Troubleshooting guides for common (and some not-so-common) problems.
• Inserting and positioning graphics.
• Dos and Don'ts to help you avoid common problems.
• Best practices for backups and document security.

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The book is written specifically for Microsoft Word 2003 but most of the information is applicable to earlier versions as well.

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Published by Piedmont Medical Writers LLC