Why wouldn’t you? If you have a fancy custom style you can just drop it in the same directory as the file you are working on. If you want to install a package for a system wide use you should probably consult instructions for your latex distribution as the paths may vary.

Can i use the “.sty” files while i am in windows Xp platform? If so, then how can i do that? I want to use the Sty files such as fancyheadings.sty, nomencl.sty etc.

Not sure what you mean. Can you explain?

I dont want to put the page number of the bibliography in the content of my report. How can i do that?

Glad to help. :)

Many many thanks Luke, it worked!

Surajit – try this:

\renewcommand\bibname{References}

This should do the trick.

I want to write the Heading: “References” in place of “Bibliography” for the heading of Bibliography. How can i do that?

Thanks! Those are really great tips.

See, sometimes I miss this kind of insights – I have functional understanding of LaTex but every once in a while I run into a problem that reminds me that I still have tons to learn about it. :)

I forgot to mention one more trick. This:

\expandafter\uppercase\expandafter{\printtitle}

will also work. All of this is related the problem of how far TeX should expand a macro before performing an operation on it. It isn’t so much a design flaw or limitation of TeX, but rather a difficulty in specifying to it exactly what you want to do. Obviously, \uppercase, unlike \MakeUppercase, does not do an expansion on its argument before it operates on it.