this tutorial is going to demonstrate how to set up a word document online with your Microsoft Office 365 account and we're focusing on MLA format today so you need to log into your office 365 account once you have got logged in you are going to go to your onedrive account once you've clicked on that tile it's going to bring up your onedrive with all of your folders in it you're gonna then select the folder that you want to create and save your document in once you've selected that folder you're gonna go up to new word document and that's going to bring you then to word online after that comes up it's going to give you the option to change the name of your file so you can add a title to your document there and then you are going to start by inserting the page number so you are going to go over to the insert tab and then select page numbers and then for MLA formatting you're gonna need it in the top right hand corner so you're going to select that once you've done that it's going to bring you to the header of your document and you're going to notice there are some brackets with the number sign it's going to automatically number your paper for you so in front of that you're going to type your last name and then you're going to add a space to separate your name from the number after you've done that you're going to select your name and then you're going to change that font to Times New Roman and size 12 after that you're going to click outside of the header into the body of your document and now you're going to make sure that your document is double-spaced and you're going to remove the extra spacing so to do that on the Home tab you're going to see a section that says paragraphs in the center to the right of that is an arrow you're going to select that arrow and it's gonna pop up a new dialog box with that dialog box you want to make sure that it says that there are 0 spaces after and then you're gonna go down and select double spacing for the line spacing you also want to make sure that the alignment is to the left and then click OK once you've done that you're going to change your font to Times New Roman size 12 and then after that you want to make sure that the default margins are set at 1 inch so to do that you are going to go to the page layout and then on the left side margins and just make sure that the normal margins are set at 1 inch after you've done that you're ready to start your heading so for your heading you're going to type your first name and your last name and then you're going to hit enter and then you're going to type your teacher's name and then enter and then your class that this is for and then if you have an hour or a section make sure you include that and then enter and then the date for MLA goes day and then month and then year after you've done that you're going to hit enter again and that is where you're going to enter your title the title for your paper needs to be centered so you're going to select that and then go up to the Home tab and then make sure that it's centered and then you're going to click enter and then change it to left align and then indent or hit tab for your first paragraph for every paragraph you are going to hit tab if you have any other questions feel free to email me at came alone at lwc st at us