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daceymathers
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 2:55 am    Post subject: Re: Best thesis writing software? Reply with quote

kraft wrote:
I'm starting the process of writing my MSc thesis (microbiology), and want to know the best program to use. I have access to both MS office and iWork 09, and have heard a bit about latex. I also have parallels running so Windows7 programs are another option.

Recommendations?

Also, are there any packages to add scientific terms to the dictionaries of Pages or Word so that it doesn't think they are misspelled (rather than entering them one by one)?

Thanks


Idea Rover is one of the best software for thesis writing.Idea Rover is a note-taking automation tool with a clean interface.Idea Rover automates organizing your research material into outline-structured notes.
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PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2011 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just to update things a bit. Since late 2010 I have been using Word 2008 (decided to not update to Word 2011) and moved from Bookends to EndNote X4 http://www.endnote.com/ as bibliography manager. I had an old (version 3) license of EndNote, later updated to version 5, and they offered me a nice price for an update to X4. All is going perfectly here.

By the way, some of recent suggestions I read here, are promotions of recent software that, as far as I can understand, can't work together with a reference (bibliography) database and don't even work in Macintosh Operative System. Must be a joke, right?


lidador wrote:
You can try a lot of software and you can lose a lot of time...

In your place I would chose something standard, useful for this project and for the years to come. I would go with Word 2008 + Bookends.
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