Members of your department are aware that theses and dissertations must be submitted electronically and that the electronic copy is the one they must eventually approve. You must work with your committee during the draft stages of your thesis or dissertation.

You can print PDF files from Adobe Reader or Adobe Exchange to regular paper. The printouts will contain readable text, but may not render multimedia objects adequately. However, this document should be sufficient for your faculty to review, especially in the draft stages.

In normal word processors (Word, Word Perfect), when you set up the word processor for your ETD, create the global styles that you will need for paragraphs, headings, lists, block quotes, etc. Set the line spacing for each of these to 1.5 or 2 lines (6 or 12 points). If you use the heading style to mark all of your headings, then you may automatically generate a table of contents. If you choose not use heading styles, you may connect table of contents entries manually, choosing "refer to page number'' from the "Insert'' menu. Otherwise, you must renumber the table of contents by hand (20-25 minutes for large documents).

If you are using LaTeX, put the following in the preamble:

\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2}

Furthermore, the Graduate School will accept documents formatted as "space-and-a-half" (LaTeX \baselinestretch{1.5}). Your faculty should allow this.