Federal and State Proposal Formatting Services
Formatting can add stress to your proposal writers, so we’re here to help! Our formatting team will consult with you to understand your needs and preferences, so you can focus on writing. We create customizable proposal outlines in MS Word, apply styles, and reformat text to create professionally polished materials. Our document formatting services are based on the following:
Send us your final files, complete with any figures, tables and appendices. Let us know if you have any specific layout instructions or corporate branding requirements, such as logos, fonts and color schemes. We then handle everything:
Review files
Confirm receipt of all input materials, including text, images, styling requests and branding.
Compile document
Combine files and collate any other material to create a single source file to work from.
Prepare text
Remove unwanted spaces, breaks, tabs and sections to clean the text for formatting..
Page setup
Set margins, breaks, columns, headers, footers, orientation and page numbering.
Text formatting
Style headings, lists and numbering. Apply title casing, refs, term & def, footnotes.
Branding
Select fonts, colors, and style with company logo, front cover, borders, lines and fills.
Headers & footers
Create and style document title, section, company, page numbers and date as required.
Navigation & structure
Mark-up parts, sections, headings and numbering schemes to determine document structure.
Tables styling
Create a consistent set of table styles to clearly present all different forms of data.
Image placement
Size, crop, straighten, rotate, reshape or wrap images to work best with the text on each page.
Captions
Number each figure, table, chart or diagram with the correct label and cross-reference.
Footnotes
Create a consistently styled set of references that link to numbered instances on each page.
Table of contents
Generate and style the table of contents, list of figures and list of tables with page numbers as needed.
Extra design
Price upon request. Cover design, diagram creation, spreadsheets, image work.
Changes
Single set of free styling and formatting changes included as standard.