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hi everyone the seventh edition of APA style specifies two different ways to set up your paper one for students and one for professionals this video will walk you through how to set up a paper for students so this is ideal for assignments for a class whether you are in high school college or even graduate school but if you are writing a paper that you plan to submit for publication in a journal check the video description for a link to the professional version which is a little bit different the video description also contains timestamps that will jump you to various parts of the video so if you are just looking for one thing in particular use the timestamps to get there now in this video I will demonstrate everything using Microsoft Word on a Windows computer if you are using word for mac an older version of word or a different word processing program entirely like Google Docs your paper should still look the same way but the menu options you select to make that happen might be in a different spot additionally in order to get the most use out of this video I recommend pausing the video as needed to complete the steps yourself because there is a lot to go over I will demonstrate and talk any moderate pace if that is too fast for you listen for a bit pause the video rewind is needed get caught up and then continue and as a final note in some spots I'm going to use lorem ipsum text or placeholder text for illustrative purposes now the very first thing I recommend doing is to enable the formatting symbols these are normally invisible but I find them to be extremely useful when writing and formatting papers because they show every keystroke that you make to do that click on the paragraph symbol which is the show/hide formatting marks button now whenever you press Enter tab or space symbols for each will appear these symbols are not printed so you do not need to worry about a bunch of extra stuff appearing on what you do submit it might take you a little bit of time to get used to seeing them but once you do you won't ever turn them off now to actually get to APA style the first step is to ensure that your page margins are set up correctly APA style specifies 1-inch page margins on all sides this is the default option nowadays but older of word and other word processing programs may have different margins to double check go to layout margins and then see what is selected as you can see normal is the default option one inch on all sides if you need to change your margins you can pick one of the presets or just go to custom margins and you can then go ahead and change top left bottom right to one inch each next we...