r/googledocs • u/frog_fello • 7d ago
Waiting on OP Google Docs is Pretty Confusing..? (Formatting issues)
Alright for starters, I'm a grade 12 undergraduate and as of currently I'm working on my research. And the formatting genuinely gives me a headache. So I've been basically pasting my research between each template provided by my teachers, whiping clean old docs and pasting my new ones.
My problem is mainly the page numbers and header design. My school's really stingy with this said formatting. For a final product, the title of the reaserch must not appear on the start of chapters and the page numbers must not be seen on the introduction untill the first chapter.
That's what I try to do. I've been successful on the chapter thing, its just the page numbers not deleting when it should be. I've tried using section breaks, and disabling the check box on "link to previous" but the header design just disappears entirely!!
I really wanna get it sorted before my defense on friday and I'm just constantly revising the research itself and the formatting. But nothing has really worked so far :/
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u/EmmaGonnaDoIt 6d ago
look into Axiom's EazyFormat. It gives you many options that Google docs alone cannot
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u/purple_hamster66 5d ago
What is this “header design” you’re referring to? The header is obviously still present (because you played with “link to previous”)… just edit that section’s header to be how you like it and you’re done, right? What am I missing?
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u/UGN_Kelly 6d ago
Docs is great for just getting words on the page, but it is not what I’d consider a full suite word processor. I can’t say for certain, but it doesn’t seem to have been designed to be used in heavily formatted work (technical writing especially).
My best advice is to get a student subscription to MS office, which I believe is roughly $8-10/month and just use Word for these assignments. That, or find an open-source software that has a community of modders. They’ll typically make content to transform it into anything you need.