Introduction Making a good first impression on your reader takes some effort and can influence your grades to a certain extent. Although the content of your essay is of highest importance, the formatting and organization of your essay does influences your reader and makes a first impression. So, putting some efforts on formatting is highly recommended. In this tutorial, we look at few quick tips that improve the readability of your documents and make it look professional. Adding a Table of Content Table of content (TOC) helps the reader to quickly understand how the author has organized her work and allows the reader to quickly access the information that the reader needs. Further, this helps the marker to the compare the grading criteria with work of the author. To use the Microsoft Word’s, Automatic TOC functionality, you have to first format the chapter headings and sub headings using Heading styles. Heading Styles Highlight chapter heading and apply style “Hea