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format.
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Microsoft Word Viewer can be downloaded from Microsoft's web site.
Some documents on this Web site are available in Adobe Acrobat
Portable Document Format (PDF).
What is PDF?
PDF is a portable document format developed by Adobe Systems.
PDF documents are widely used on the Internet, for several reasons:
- A PDF has the same appearance, colors, fonts, graphics and
layout as the printed document.
- PDF files can be viewed in the browser, or saved for off-line
use or printed.
- The Acrobat Reader software is freely available for most
operating systems.
- While the Reader software can't edit (change) a PDF document,
it can copy text from the document and perform word or text-string
searches of the document.
Viewing Requirements
To view PDF documents you need to use a PDF file viewer such as
Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Exchange from Adobe Systems
Incorporated.
You may download
and install Acrobat Reader free of charge.
Please
upgrade your browser and PDF viewer to the latest version to avoid
any problems.
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are prompted to download hit cancel, this means that you do not have
it installed. Click here
to download Acrobat Reader now.
If you experience any problems with PDF documents, upgrading your
browser and/or PDF viewer to the latest version usually solves the
problem.
If after upgrading your software you are still unable to
view PDF documents click here
to view Adobe's help section. You may also to the
webmaster for further assistance regarding PDF or technical issues
concerning this Web site.
How to Use a PDF Documents
- Download
Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Install Acrobat Reader on your computer.
- Start your web browser and locate a PDF document on the Web.
- Click on the hypertext link for the PDF file.
- If you want to save the file for future reference, follow your
browser's instructions for saving files from the Internet (often
this requires pressing the shift key while clicking once on the
filename).
Electronic
Fill-In-The-Blank PDF Forms
NOTE: Use of PDF fill-in-the-blank
forms does NOT necessarily include online submittal.
Some PDF forms are available in a fill-in-the-blank format. Users
now have the option—on certain forms—to complete the PDF forms
electronically, instead of manually writing or typing the
information on a hard copy version.
The form can be completed in
several easy steps.
- The user opens the PDF form in Acrobat Reader, either in the browser
or as a standalone product. The user can also save the PDF form to
their computer system and open the form in Acrobat Reader at a
later time.
- Once the form is open, the user clicks on the desired field
and a blinking cursor appears.
- After the information has been entered in the field, the user
can tab to the next field.
- After all the fields have been completed, the user can print
out the page.
NOTE: If the cursor is
blinking in a field, the information in that field will not be
printed. Hit "Return" or "Enter" and the information will be
captured for all fields.
Users with Acrobat Reader only, the entered data cannot be saved
for later use.
For those who have the entire Acrobat suite (Acrobat, formerly
called Acrobat Exchange) the data can either be saved separately or
as a part of the form.