Suppressing Page Numbers: MS Word

Basically, go to the page that precedes the page whose number you intend to suppress, choose the tab that says Page Layout, position your cursor in the end of the text of the page that precedes the page you want to change, make sure you are not inside of the footer, put the cursor over Breaks and, as it expands, choose Next. Only that action should already solve your problem. If if doesn't, then you will probably succeed after watching this video: Video

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Formula that Escapes the Intended Margins

Latex is a very flexible tool: You can actually reduce the size of an entire formula in the middle of your paper quite easily. Most of us get into trouble with that because we forget that the commands to do that do not work in Math Mode: we have to place them before the double or single dollar sign at the beginning of our formula and after the double or single dollar sign in the end. 

We have several options available:

tiny	scriptsize	footnotesize	small	normalsize
large	Large	LARGE	huge	Huge

All we have to do is adding a {\ together with the option we want, so say {\small in front of our formula and } in the end of it (after the dollar signs in the end and before those in the beginning). 

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Items: Dash or Bullet?

If you are having the same problem I had today, which is that when you use \begin{itemize} you get a dash instead of a bullet for your \item, the solution is adding the following line to your preamble: 

\renewcommand\labelitemii{$\bullet$}

You can actually use any symbol you like to mark the item. A quick way is:

\item[*]

if you want to see * instead of the bullet, for instance, marking the start of the item. 

If you want to see a plus, then write 

\item[+]

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Latex: Page Numbers

To insert page numbers in Latex, all you need to do is typing \pagestyle{plain} after your \begin{document}: You put this command wherever you want to start having page numbers. 

You may wish for changing the style of the page numbers. If you do, then you can use \pagenumbering{style}. 

The sigmatoid style can be replaced with arabic, roman, Roman (uppercase roman numerals), alph (letters, lowercase) and Alph (uppercase). 

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Bibtex Entries: fields, classes, etc.

Bibtex sorts out one of the main doubts we usually have in terms of the Bibtex: What the fields that we can use in the description of an item are, what classes are allowed, etc. As far as I understand, Latex is a programming language, so that you could actually change all that if you wanted, and had studied Latex enough, but it is much nicer getting it all from the oven, after cooked, is it not? 

At the moment, I do believe what the mentioned source states, so that we should have: 

article 

An article from a journal or magazine. Required fields: author, title, journal, year. Optional fields: volume, number, pages, month, note.

book

 A book with an explicit publisher. Required fields: author or editor, title, publisher, year. Optional fields: volume or number, series, address, edition, month, note.

booklet

 A work that is printed and bound, but without a named publisher or sponsoring institution. Required field: title. Optional fields: author, howpublished, address, month,year, note.

conference

 The same as INPROCEEDINGS, included for Scribe compatibility.

inbook 

A part of a book, which may be a chapter (or section or whatever) and/or a range of pages. Required fields: author or editor, title, chapter and/or pages, publisher,year. Optional fields: volume or number, series, type, address, edition, month, note.

incollection

 A part of a book having its own title. Required fields: author, title, booktitle, publisher, year. Optional fields: editor, volume or number, series, type,chapter, pages, address, edition, month, note.

inproceedings

 An article in a conference proceedings. Required fields: author, title, booktitle, year. Optional fields: editor, volume or number, series, pages, address,month, organization, publisher, note.

manual 

Technical documentation. Required field: title. Optional fields: author, organization, address, edition, month, year, note.

mastersthesis

 A Master's thesis. Required fields: author, title, school, year. Optional fields: type, address, month, note.

misc

 Use this type when nothing else fits. Required fields: none. Optional fields: author, title, howpublished, month, year, note.

phdthesis

 A PhD thesis. Required fields: author, title, school, year. Optional fields: type, address, month, note.

proceedings

 The proceedings of a conference. Required fields: title, year. Optional fields: editor, volume or number, series, address, month, organization, publisher, note.

techreport

 A report published by a school or other institution, usually numbered within a series. Required fields: author, title, institution, year. Optional fields: type,number, address, month, note.

unpublished 

A document having an author and title, but not formally published. Required fields: author, title, note. Optional fields: month, year.

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Chapter/Section Numbers in Latex: Format

The problem that I had today I had already had in the past but, because I forgot the solution, I was here struggling another two hours or so, so that this blog post is also to help me in case I forget again. I was getting 0.0 as a chapter number. 

To get rid of complications, I used sections instead of chapters when building my pages but I then wanted to use Table of Contents to get a nice index. 

That is how the problem appeared. The solution is quite easy but it takes us a long time to get there on our own.

We have to then add this to the preamble: 

\renewcommand\thesection{\arabic{section}}

\renewcommand\thesection{\arabic{chapter}}

And we then  have to add this to the body: 

\begin{document}

\setcounter{tocdepth}{1}

\setcounter{chapter}{1}

\setcounter{section}{0}

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{1}

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Adding Signatures to Your Electronic Letters

If you have a Google or a Yahoo account, it is really easy to add a small chunk of text to better tell others who you are, so say your titles, address, fax and telephone numbers. 

I have just done that in a professional way for the first time, like I had it once but it was more like a marketing token for a few of my products. Now I am telling others who I am and how they can contact me inside of those final lines of my electronic letters. 

It is all free and easy with both Google and Yahoo: All you have to do is right clicking (with your mouse) over the button that means settings, which is a button in the shape of a machine gear. You will then see a menu containing the option settings, which is the option you must choose. With Yahoo, you then click over Accounts and, after that, over the electronic address you have with Yahoo. With Google, you just scroll down up to Signature, when you will then choose adding one. After you clicked over your yahoo address with Yahoo, you have to scroll down up to Signature as well and then tick the box Append instead of Add (Google). Now, you can just type whatever you want to appear at the bottom of your every electronic letter: It is that easy!

You can have Positive Thinking messages there, if you want. You can have reassurance messages. You can even tell people when you will be away. It is a very useful resource that you can use for free and that can make an actual difference in the way you communicate with people, since, once you set it up, you will be able to communicate whatever is in your signature without having to think about it. If it is important, then it is a way of never forgetting to put the information in your letters. 

It is part of what is called Good Business Practice, I reckon. 

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