Formatting Papers in APA 6th Edition Using MS Word 2007

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Formatting Papers
in APA 6th Edition
Using MS Word 2007 or
2010
*Screen shots are with MS Word 2010.
Menu color and placement are only slightly
different in 2007.
Hodges University Library
Open a new document in MS Word.
MS Word has a 1” default margin on all
four sides, which is what APA requires.
If you need to adjust the margins, click
on Page Layout, then Margins.
Then choose one of the margin
options, or click on Custom
Margins to set this manually.
Click on the Font box at the bottom
right corner to set the default font
1. Select Times
New Roman
2. Select 12
point font
3. Click on
Default
button and
click Yes to
make this
your default
font
Then click on the small down arrow
on the bottom right corner of the
Paragraph box.
Indentation boxes should be set to
0”
Change the Spacing After to 0 pt
from 10 pt
1. Change the Line spacing to Double
(this will double-space your text
through the paper)
2. Check the box Don’t add space
between paragraphs…
3. Click on Default
(and Yes) to
make these
changes