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10 Group Work

More and more students have to give in group papers. Up to four or even more authors might

be involved.

To facilitate the joining together of the various contributions do the following:

• agree on certain general parameters so as to ensure overall uniformity of document,

e.g. limit yourselves to a maximum of two levels of headings

• enable automatic chapter numbering (see section 6)

• make sure all participants use the Text body-style for the Text Body and under no cir-

cumstances the Default-style!

• be sure to completely avoid any manual formatting, always apply styles and make sure

all members of the group apply the same styles with the same names for the same pur-

poses and with the same formatting

Joining the various contributions in one document is then only a matter of a couple minutes:

• open a new file

• dump all the contributions in any order

• using the Navigator sort chapters as appropriate

• create your front page and generate your table of contents

Of course you can always make adjustments a at later stage. See also Section 14 to discover an

easy way to export styles for later use by yourself or other members of your work group.

□ Individual Headers for Each Contributor?

Who made what contribution has of course to be registered. There are basically three options:

1. Place a list of the authors right under the table of contents with the chapters they

authored in brackets.

2. Put the authors’ names in brackets inside the chapter headings.

3. Put the authors’ names in the page header.

This last option requires each author to have his or her own individual Page Style. These

might be named Shila, Leila and Peter. These various page styles are all provided with a

header to later accommodate author’s name and page number. This involves the following

steps:

• open Menu Format › Styles and Formatting (F11)

• click on the 4

icon to the right to list all page styles

• right-click on the Default-Style

• select Modify…

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