Things to Remember

give maria a call immediately if text you added has disappeared do not restore a previous version of the document but give maria a call to sort out the situation check if autosave is active if not, do not make any changes in the shared document use comments to alert others to the changes you have made use "track changes" with a lot of caution since there are so many of us working in the same document, tracking changes will make the document look very messy if you add a longer text, just add it without "track changes" being active add a comment for the others to see that you have added the paragraph only use "track changes" if you would like to suggest changes in a paragraph written by another person make sure you track only your own changes close the word file when you are done this will help avoid sync issues use paragraph styles to create automatic table of contents, to easily navigate in the document and most importantly to quickly apply a set of formatting choices consistently throughout our documents, we use paragraph styles please delete all empty lines / paragraphs! space before / after is defined in the paragraph style so e g the space before / after heading 1 can be changed for all headings with one click click on the link below to learn how to apply a paragraph style (e g heading 1, heading 2, etc ) to text in the document make yourself familiar with paragraph styles to use word efficiently (not just in this project ; )) https //support microsoft com/en gb/office/customize or create new styles d38d6e47 f6fc 48eb a607 1eb120dec563 activate the navigation pane to easily navigate in a document (using the headings), activate the "navigation pane" in the tab "view"