AVVA WEBSITE Making the Best Use of a Resource

Training Goals: Become familiar with the different facets of the website. Learn how the website can help you. Tips about the forms. Making the bests use of the resources.

What Can I Find There?

Links to documents, or to websites outside of our domain will come up in a new “tab”. You need only to “X” out of them to return to the page you came from. In some browsers, it may simply open in a whole new window. This can also just be “X’d” out to return.

What About Those Forms? Most of the forms on our website are “fillable” pdf’s, meaning that you can fill them out on your computer and save or print them. When you can save them, all filled out, they can usually be submitted as an attachment to an email. How, you ask? This can depend on your computer’s operating system.

HERE IS A BIG HINT! Adobe Acrobat Reader DC https://get.adobe.com/reader/otherversions/ During the install, there will be one window that will ask if you want to make Acrobat Reader your default for PDF documents. Tell it yes!

Filling Out a Form on a PC We used windows 10 for this example. You may have an older operating system. This should give you the information you need for most. First, go to the forms page, and choose the form you need:

Now, you can either download it, to fill out and save: (These forms are PDF documents)

Or you can fill it out, and print from this window:

When you choose to download, you should see this somewhere your screen:

After the form has downloaded you may see this on your screen:

When you click on “View Downloads” you can choose from the list on the right:

Once you have clicked the Print Icon:

THE WORD DOC FORMS: There are a few of the forms that are offered in the WORD doc versions, for those who want them, and who have Microsoft Office installed on their computers. They are the newer ‘docx’ versions. Using these is slightly different than the PDF forms, but can be very convenient.

So, how does that work? First, click on the link to the Word document you want to use, then click on the link to save it:

You can save it as it is, or give it a new name:

Now decide where to save, and what name and file type:

Some of you may see this: Just click on “Enable Editing” to change the form.

Once you have filled out the form, save it to your computer.

You will get some variation of this screen:

Maybe it will look more like this:

In either case, just choose where you want to save it, and what name you want to give it. Also! Be sure you select the proper file type!

And that is the end of that! Questions?