MS Word Series: Smart Way of Working With MS Ofiice

Make use the STYLES!!!

Here's some links.

Mastering MS Word
Automated compilation of multiple chapters into one document
Table of contents
Table of contents from separate multiple documents
Table of Figures
Table of Figure Workaround
Numbering
Using switch for the cross reference
How to dissertation 1
How to dissertation 2
Automated Header according to Headings
Appendices
Caption in Appendices
Reset sequence number i.e. Equation