congrats on your progress :-)

what program are you trying to format it in? word? are you saving the chapters as separate documents or saving it as one big document?

i had immense trouble with using word for my masters thesis. endless nightmares with what appeared on the screen being okay and what came out of the printer or ended up in the PDF was full of all kinds of errors. aaargh.

i'm trying to use LaTeX but that has all kinds of problems of its own. my biggest at the moment is that it won't let me install any usepackages and i need one to let me do APA referencing and another to do MinionPro font style. Have you picked a font yet? (Important issues)... There are lotsa templates available online with front matter etc...