Use the Show/Hide Button

The Show/Hide button allows you to see editing marks in your document, which can be useful for erasing formatting mistakes that may not be obvious when looking at your document in a normal view.

Show/Hide Word for Macs 2008

Show/Hide Word for Macs 2011

Adding captions to your figures and tables is an essential part of many thesis/dissertations styles. The guide here applies to using captions in Word 2016 and Word 2011 for Mac.

Kansas State's tutorial for using captions in Word 2008

You can create a Table of Contents either manually or by using Headings to have Word create the Table of Contents automatically after you've assigned those Headings in the text.

Manually Create a Table of Contents

Create a Table of Contents in MSWord for Mac 2011

Creating a Table of Contents in MSWord for Mac 2016