The following are some notes on things we have learned over the years of filling out engineering competition documents!
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Typical Deadlines
General Notes
ALWAYS fill out the documents in Word/Excel
Share the Excel or Word document with everyone via OneDrive. Uploading to Google Drive and then downloading to submit can ruin formatting and take many hours to fix
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Table of Contents/Figures/Tables
Quick guide on how to make use of Microsofts tools to make this quick as possible
Setup Caption Style
Select a sample text and set it to be the new caption format
This makes it so all new captions are automatically formatted
Add Captions
When adding a caption, do not just make a new line and center justify. Instead use the caption tool!
Right click your image and select “add caption”
Fill in the menu and hit “OK”
You will now see that this is a properly “linked” caption. The number after “Figure” is a hyperlink
For tables use the same process! Just change the parameters in the menu to be “Table” and “Above” rather than “Figure” and “Below”
Adding Hyperlinked References
Open the “Cross Reference” tool
Select your category (figure or table), ensure you select “Only label and number”, select your destination item, and then click insert!
This will insert exactly where your text cursor was when you hit the cross reference button, so make sure to position it in the paragraph first!
Adding Table of Contents/Figures
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