Microsoft Word MLA Guidelines

MLA

Works Cited

Page breaks inserted automatically by Word. Also called automatic page break.

A temporary storage area that holds up to 24 items (text or graphics) copied from an Office program.

A popular documentation style for research papers.

Checking a document to ensure that all information is correct and that the document contains no grammatical, typographical, or spelling errors.

The top triangle at the 0" mark on the ruler that marks the first line indent of a paragraph

The process of copying an item from the Office Clipboard into a document at the location of the insertion point.

The first line of a paragraph that is displayed by itself at the bottom of a page.

The task word performs of automatically calculating and placing page breaks.

Note in a research paper that appears at the bottom of the page

The process of removing an item from a document before placing it on the Office Clipboard

The amount of space above and below a paragraph

Copy, or use someone else's work and claim it to be your own.

Button that is displayed when you click a small blue box below automatically corrected text that allows you to undo a correction or specify how word handles future automatic corrections.