bibiography will not work

Question

HI

I am new to MS Word for Mac

I have entered all the information in teh citations, when I pull down the menu for the bibliography (under references) it shows a blank page not a page with the optional look of the bibliography, it doen the same for table of contents as well

Any idea what I have done wrong

thanks

in advance

Ranger777

Answer 1

This is how to do the whole process from scratch:

1. You need to have an open document (shouldn't be so)
2. In the main menu, select View > Citations
3. Click on the + button at the bottom to add your citations (these are not added to your document, but to a Master List)
4. After you've defined a Master List, click on the gear symbol at the bottom
5. Select Citation Manager
6. Copy the citations you need from the Master List to the Current List, which pertains to the frontmost document

This may seem a roundabout way to manage citations, but the advantage is that you only have to add each citation once, and then it will be available to any of your documents.

Answer 2

What Daniel said, with a screen shot. There's more about this in the book

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-insert-a-citation-in-word-2011-for-mac.html