Most theses are formatted manually, which is why the contents page stops matching, the page numbers restart in the wrong place, and everything shifts the moment a paragraph is added. We rebuild your document on Word styles so the structure holds no matter what you edit afterwards.
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Format vetting happens before examination at most Malaysian universities.
Typed by hand months ago and never updated, so it lists headings that no longer exist and page numbers that are four pages out. A format checker opens the contents page first, and this is the fastest possible rejection.
Roman numerals should run through the front matter and Arabic from Chapter 1, which needs section breaks rather than manual fiddling. Without them the numbering either runs continuously or restarts somewhere nobody intended.
Manual spacing, manual page breaks and hand-typed captions collapse the moment anything is edited. Students end up afraid to touch their own document, which is a terrible position two weeks before submission.
Insert one figure in Chapter 4 and every number after it is wrong, along with every sentence in the text that refers to them. Automatic captioning exists precisely so this cannot happen.
Fonts substitute, spacing changes, tables break across pages. Usually caused by fonts that are not embedded and layout built with tabs and returns instead of proper paragraph settings.
Most Malaysian faculties require a wider left margin for binding. Get it wrong and the hardbound copy swallows the inner edge of every page โ discovered after printing, when it is expensive to fix.
Returned by the format check? Send the document and the vetting comments. The audit tells you exactly what failed, free.
Get My Free Format Audit โEvery element below is built as an automatic Word feature rather than typed. That is the whole difference between formatting that holds and formatting that collapses.
Heading 1 through Heading 4, body text, captions, block quotations and references each defined once as a style. Change the style and the whole document follows โ no hunting through ninety pages for one stray font size.
Title page, declaration, abstract in both languages where required, acknowledgements, contents, lists of tables, figures and abbreviations โ assembled in the exact sequence your handbook specifies, with the numbering it specifies.
All three generated from your actual headings and captions, so they regenerate with one click every time you edit. You will never again submit a contents page that disagrees with the document behind it.
Roman numerals through the front matter, Arabic from Chapter 1, correct suppression on the title page, and headers that behave across every section. Built with section breaks, which is the only way it survives editing.
Table 4.3 and Figure 5.1 numbered by chapter automatically, with every mention in the text linked to the caption. Insert a figure anywhere and everything renumbers itself, text references included.
Page size, all four margins including the extra left allowance for binding, line spacing, paragraph indentation, widow and orphan control, and font embedded so it looks identical on any machine.
Wide tables rotated without breaking the page numbering, header rows repeating when a table runs over a page, and appendices lettered and listed the way your faculty requires.
An editable Word file you keep working in, plus a PDF exported with bookmarks, embedded fonts and correct page order for e-thesis submission โ and a separate print-ready version for hardbound copies.
Only one element broken?A rebuilt contents page, a numbering fix or a front matter build can each be ordered on their own from RM 110.
Fix One Element โThe format audit is free and happens before anything is charged.
The audit alone is worth having.Even if you format it yourself afterwards, you will know exactly what your graduate school is going to flag.
Audit My Document Free โFormat vetting is an administrative gate, not an academic one โ which is why it is both easier to pass and more frustrating to fail.
Nobody at this stage is reading your argument. They are checking margins, front matter order, numbering and declaration forms against a list. Passing it says nothing about your research and failing it costs you weeks.
Resubmission usually means waiting for the next vetting cycle rather than a same-week recheck. Students routinely lose a month to a wrong margin, which is the most avoidable delay in a Malaysian candidature.
Your handbook states the exact requirements and almost nobody reads that section until something fails. Send it with your document and the whole job is built inside it rather than against a generic template.
Examiners send corrections, you edit, and the numbering drifts a second time. A document built on styles absorbs those edits without breaking, which is why the corrected copy is where manual formatting fails hardest.
Priced by document rather than by word, because formatting work depends on structure and length, not on how much you wrote.
A chapter being submitted for review, or a research proposal that has to match faculty format before a defence. Styles applied, captions numbered, headings set to the required hierarchy.
The complete document from title page to appendices, all automatic elements built, both submission files produced.
Your examiners' corrections have been made and the numbering has drifted again. Renumbering repaired, contents and lists regenerated, and a fresh submission PDF produced for the final deposit.
Bab, Jadual, Rajah dan Lampiran numbered and captioned in BM, front matter in the order your faculty specifies, and an English abstract formatted alongside the BM one where your programme requires both.
Converted with equations, numbering and cross-references intact rather than rebuilt by hand.
Every one of these has a proper fix that takes minutes and a manual workaround that fails again next week. These are the proper fixes.
Recognise three or more of these?Then the document was formatted manually and every one of them will return. The audit tells you which are present, free.
Check My Document โAll three below have rebuilt hundreds of Malaysian theses to faculty handbooks.
๐MSc Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
๐9 years supporting Malaysian students ยท Bahasa Malaysia ยท English
"Formatting rejections are the most avoidable delay in a thesis. Nobody should lose a semester to a margin."
Work with Alia โ๐Doctorate in information management
๐Formerly processed submissions at a graduate school
"I used to send these back for a living. It was almost never the research โ it was the margin, the contents page or the declaration form."
Work with Faridah โ๐Doctorate in mechanical engineering
๐Maintains thesis templates for a research group
"Every engineering thesis I open has floating images. Anchor them inline and half the layout problems disappear at once."
Work with Keat โ๐Doctorate in education, bilingual publishing background
๐Prepares e-thesis and print files for deposit
"The print file and the e-thesis file are not the same document. Students discover that at the binder, which is the worst place to find out."
Work with Kavitha โTechnical document or a bilingual one?Tell us which and it goes to the specialist who rebuilds that kind every week, before anything is charged.
Match Me to a Specialist โAnyone can make a document look right once.
Add a paragraph to Chapter 2 and nothing breaks โ contents, page numbers, figure numbers and cross-references all follow. Manually formatted documents lose all of that with a single insertion.
A written list of what fails your handbook, free, with a fixed price attached. Some students take the audit and fix it themselves, which is a perfectly reasonable outcome.
Downloaded templates are close and not exact, and close is what fails vetting. Send the guideline your faculty published and the document is built against that specific list.
An editable Word file you keep working in, a submission PDF with bookmarks and embedded fonts, and a print-ready version with the binding allowance. They are genuinely different documents.
A short note explaining how to refresh the contents page and add a numbered figure yourself. Post-viva corrections are coming and you should not need us again for them.
Formatting effort depends on structure, not word count. Charging per word for this work overcharges long documents and misprices short complicated ones.
M.R.'s 214-page thesis came back from vetting in eleven days with five items โ a hand-typed contents page, Roman numerals running into Chapter 1, six landscape pages with sideways page numbers, nine broken cross-references, and a left margin 1cm short after two hardbound copies were already printed.
The document was rebuilt from styles rather than patched. Every heading was reassigned to a real heading style with multi-level numbering. Section breaks were inserted around front matter and each landscape page. All 47 figures and 22 tables were converted to automatic captions, and every cross-reference rebuilt as a live field. Margins were reset and both submission files produced.
The thesis passed vetting at second submission with no items raised. After his viva he made his examiners' corrections and regenerated the contents page himself in about thirty seconds. The two wrongly printed hardbound copies remain the expensive part of the story.
Not printed yet?Get the margins checked before you pay a binder. It is the one formatting error that costs money rather than time.
Check Before I Print โHand-typed contents, no section breaks, sideways page numbers on landscape pages, nine broken cross-references and a binding margin 1cm short.
Full style set with multi-level heading numbers, section breaks throughout, automatic captions and live cross-references, corrected margins and regenerated lists.
Rebuilt rather than patched. Patching a manually formatted document only moves the failure to the next edit.
A well-built LaTeX thesis and a graduate school that accepts Word submissions only, with 60 numbered equations and full cross-referencing to preserve.
Converted with equations as editable objects, numbering and references rebuilt as Word fields, and the faculty style set applied over the result.
Converted rather than retyped. Retyping sixty equations introduces errors nobody catches until the viva.
A BM thesis needing Bab, Jadual and Rajah numbering, abstracts in both languages, and two different output files for deposit and binding.
BM caption labels applied throughout, both abstracts formatted to handbook order, PDF exported with bookmarks and fonts embedded, separate print file with binding margin.
The deposit file and the print file were produced separately. Most students discover they are different documents at the binder's counter.
"Vetting sent my 214 pages back over a margin and a contents page. Nobody had read a word of the research. A month gone."
"After my viva I made the corrections and refreshed the contents page myself in thirty seconds. That was the whole point."
"Nine of my figure references said 'Error! Reference source not found' in the submitted PDF. I hadn't even seen it in Word."
"My faculty wanted Word and I had built everything in LaTeX. They converted it with all sixty equations intact instead of retyping."
"The audit was free and it listed five things. I fixed three myself and paid them for the two I couldn't work out."
"I had already printed two hardbound copies with the wrong binding margin. Check that before you pay a binder โ please."
"Saya tak tahu fail e-tesis dan fail cetak adalah dua dokumen berbeza. Mereka hantar kedua-duanya sekali."
"Every time I added a paragraph my figure numbers went wrong. Automatic captions fixed it permanently and I stopped being scared of my own document."
Priced by page count and structure, with all three output files included at every level.
| Formatting Service | Document | Flat Price | Typical Turnaround |
|---|---|---|---|
| Format Audit Against Your Handbook | Any Document | Free | Same or next day |
| Single Chapter or Research Proposal | Up to 40 pages | RM 90 | 1โ2 Days |
| Full Thesis Formatting | Up to 100 pages | RM 280 | 2โ4 Days |
| Full Thesis Formatting | 100โ220 pages | RM 420 | 3โ5 Days |
| Front Matter Build Only | Any Document | RM 120 | 1โ2 Days |
| Contents Page and Lists Rebuild | Any Document | RM 110 | 1 Day |
| Numbering and Cross-Reference Repair | Any Document | RM 130 | 1โ2 Days |
| Corrected Copy After the Viva | Full Thesis | RM 180 | 2โ3 Days |
| LaTeX to Word Conversion | Full Thesis | RM 480 | 4โ7 Days |
| Urgent Turnaround Under 24 Hours | Surcharge | +40% | Subject to capacity |
The price depends on page count, how many tables and figures need automatic captioning, and whether landscape pages or equations are involved. All three output files are included at every price point. If the audit shows only your contents page and numbering are wrong, order those two fixes rather than a full rebuild โ that is a RM 240 job, not a RM 420 one.
Flat rates rather than per word: RM 90 for a chapter or proposal, RM 280 for a full thesis up to 100 pages and RM 420 up to 220 pages. Individual fixes cost less โ a contents page rebuild is RM 110, numbering repair RM 130 and a post-viva corrected copy RM 180. The format audit is free and comes with the exact price before you commit.
Because it was typed rather than generated. A real contents page is a field that reads your heading styles, so it can only work if your headings are actually formatted as Heading 1, Heading 2 and so on rather than as bold text made larger. Once the styles are applied, the contents page refreshes with one click and never disagrees with the document again.
With a section break between them, not a page break. Insert a next-page section break before Chapter 1, unlink the footer from the previous section, then set each section's numbering format independently and restart the second at 1. Without unlinking, changing one section silently changes the other โ which is why this defeats so many students.
Yes, and send the vetting comments with the document โ they tell us exactly what the checker flagged, which is faster than working it out ourselves. Most rejections come down to margins, front matter order, numbering or a contents page that no longer matches. None of it is about your research, which is what makes it such a frustrating way to lose a month.
Yours. Send the formatting guideline your faculty published and the document is built against that specific list. Downloaded generic templates are close but not exact, and close is precisely what fails vetting โ margins, caption placement and front matter order differ between faculties at the same university.
That is the entire point of building it on styles. Add paragraphs, insert a figure, delete a section โ contents, page numbers, caption numbers and cross-references all follow automatically. You also receive a one-page note on refreshing everything yourself, so the corrected copy should not need us again.
That message means a cross-reference is pointing at a caption or bookmark that no longer exists, usually deleted during editing. The fix is repairing the reference so it points at the correct caption again. Typing the number over the error looks solved and is not โ the error returns the next time the fields update, often in the submitted PDF.
Yes, at RM 480 for a full thesis. Equations come across as editable objects, numbering and cross-references are rebuilt as Word fields, and your faculty style set is applied over the result. We convert rather than retype, because retyping sixty equations introduces errors that nobody notices until a viva.
Most Malaysian faculties require a wider left margin, commonly 4cm against 2.5cm on the other three, but your handbook governs it. Check this before you print rather than after โ it is the one formatting error that costs money instead of time, and hardbound copies are not cheap to reprint.
Yes, at the same rates. Bab, Jadual, Rajah and Lampiran are numbered and captioned in BM throughout, front matter follows your faculty's order, and where your programme requires abstracts in both languages, both are formatted to the handbook rather than one being an afterthought.
Yes, genuinely different documents. The e-thesis PDF needs bookmarks, embedded fonts and correct page order for deposit. The print file needs the binding allowance and often a different handling of blank pages. Both are produced at every price point, because students who receive only one find out at the binder's counter.
No. This is structural work only โ styles, numbering, layout and output files. Not a single word of your text is altered. If your language also needs attention, that is a separate service with its own levels and its own pricing, and we will say so rather than quietly bundling it in.
Two to four days up to 100 pages and three to five for longer documents, with the free audit back the same or next day. Under 24 hours carries a surcharge and depends on capacity. If your vetting deadline is tomorrow, say so in the enquiry and you will get an honest answer rather than an accepted order.
Completely. Your document is used only for your formatting job, never reused as a template sample, never shared beyond the specialist assigned to you, and deleted once the order closes. Unpublished research stays yours alone.
Not sure what your handbook actually requires?Send the document and the guideline. The audit lists every mismatch, free, before anything is charged.
๐ฌ WhatsApp Your DocumentSend the document, your faculty handbook and the deadline. The audit comes back free โ with an honest answer on whether a full rebuild fits your timeline.