Now you should see all the heading style options in the “Styles” menu.From the “Select styles to show” select “All styles:”.You should see a floating box that says “Styles,” at the bottom of that box click “Options:”.From the Home menu select the little arrow in the bottom right of the “Styles” box: Word has built in heading styles that you can modify according to APA.On the Grammar and style portions check every box in the list:.In the Grammar Settings dialog box select “always” for “Comma required before last list item” (otherwise known as the serial or oxford comma), “inside” for “Punctuation required with quotes,” and 2 for “spaces required between sentences” (this is an APA suggestion you can choose 1 if you’d like):.

Next click on “proofing.” Under the “When correcting spelling and grammar in Word” menu on the proofing page select “grammar and style.” Then click on “settings:”.From the “File” menu click on “Options:”.It will teach you how to:įormat a reference list (hanging indent) Grammar and Style I recommend Zane State College’s APA Guide. Since there are many tutorials that teach this I skipped that part. First you need to set your margins, font etc.You can also download the free APA template I created. I did this in MS 2010 but the 20 versions can do this as well. There are pricey software programs available that will do this type of formatting for you, but with a little effort on your part you can bypass the price tag and do it on your own for free! This tutorial will cover how to set MS Word to check for grammar and style that is specific to APA (such as the oxford comma, checking for passive voice, etc).

Apa style templates for word 2010