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E-Thesis Information

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In collaboration with the Graduate Studies Office, the Library is providing online access to newly received UW-Whitewater theses. All theses submitted since the fall semester of 2003 will be available electronically from the University Library Catalog.

Instructions

Students are to submit one copy of the original UW-Whitewater thesis typed on rag paper and the second copy in electronic Portable Document Format (PDF). The PDF version may be submitted on a Floppy Disk, CD, DVD, or ZIP Disk. Submitting theses in PDF format will appear the way the author intended it to be. All submissions are to be sent to the Graduate Office. Students are required to complete the UW-W Library Electronic Thesis Access Agreement Form when submitting the thesis.

  • Students can convert Word documents directly to PDF using Adobe Acrobat Professional (available at the scanning station near the Reference Desk in the Library) using the instructions below.
  • If any other program is used (WordPerfect, Microsoft Works, etc.), the document should be saved in Rich Text Format (RTF) before conversion. Please be aware that when converting to RTF, most formatting and outlines are lost. To convert to RTF: open the file, click on "File" / "Save As" / and select "Rich Text Format" as the file type. After the document has been converted to RTF, students can open the file in Word and convert the document to PDF.
  • Students using MacIntosh computers can directly save to PDF from most programs (MacIntosh computers are available at Andersen and McGraw computer labs).

Converting Word Files to PDF

In order to convert files to PDF, you must have Adobe Acrobat Professional installed on your computer. For your convenience, a PC computer and scanner with Adobe Acrobat Professional is available in the Reference Alcove in front of the Reference Desk.

  1. Open Word file.
  2. Click "File" / "Print"
  3. Select "Adobe PDF" and click "OK"
  4. Save file to A:
  5. Close Word file

Creating a Table of Contents (Adobe calls it "Bookmarks")

In order to create a linkable table of contents, you must have Adobe Acrobat Professional installed on your computer. For your convenience, a computer and scanner with Adobe Acrobat Professional is available in the Reference Alcove in front of the Reference Desk.

  1. Open PDF file using "Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional" (not Adobe Reader)
  2. Click on Hide to remove the "How To...?" pane.
  3. Click on the Bookmarks tab at the left edge of the display.
  4. Display page where segment to be bookmarked (listed in table of contents) begins.
  5. Click on "Options" / "New Bookmark" (or, click on the icon of the open book with a red bookmark)
  6. Type the label for the bookmark and press <enter>
  7. Repeat steps 4-6 until all bookmarks are created.
  8. If desired, embed bookmarks as secondary to others by dragging them to the Adobe icon left of the higher-level bookmark. A "-" appears to the left of the higher-level bookmark, and the embedded bookmark appears below it and indented.
  9. If it is necessary to move bookmarks to different positions, just drag them to the correct position.
  10. Save the file! (Save as same file. No need to rename it.)

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