More and more often we are finding it useful to place documents in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat formats on our site for downloading. This allows the people who use our site to view and print documents from the web in a suitable format and also allows users to download these files and edit or print them from their own computers.

Download the Adobe Acrobat Reader Download the Microsoft Excel viewer  Download the Microsoft Word viewer  Download the Microsoft PowerPoint Animation player Download the Microsoft PowerPoint viewer

How To Use These Files

• A help page for the Acrobat software is available here.

Microsoft Excel documents (.xls)

• These documents will always be opened in Excel, not in your browser.
• Click once on the link to the Excel file. You will get one of two message boxes. If you have the option to open the file, choose that option. If you do not, choose Save File, but pay attention to where you save it.
• If you chose to open the file, Excel should open with the file in it.
• If you chose to save the file, you will need to start Excel, then open the file you just saved.
• If you do not have Excel on your machine, a link is provided when necessary for you to download the software. Please note - if you do have Excel on your machine, do not download and install the viewer.

Microsoft PowerPoint and PowerPoint Animations (.ppt, .ppz)

• Windows 95/NT Systems

  If you are running Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51 or later, you can view these slide shows directly within your browser provided that you have installed the Microsoft PowerPoint Animation Player software.  If you do not have a copy of this program, click here to get the Microsoft PowerPoint Animation Player.  This program is free of charge.  Also, you need Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or Netscape Navigator 2.0 or later to view PowerPoint Animation files within your browser.  After the show is loaded within your browser, right click anywhere within the first slide and select "Full screen".  Then, click your mouse to advance to the next screen.

• Windows 3.1 Systems

  If you are running Windows 3.1, you will need to view these slide shows outside your browser using Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 or later.  If you do not have a copy of the PowerPoint program, click here to get the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer.  This program is also free of charge. Help with downloading is available.

• In some cases, after you have viewed a .ppz file through your browser, you can no longer use your browser to view .ppt files. A work around is to download the .ppt files to your machine and view them through PowerPoint or the PowerPoint Viewer. To download these files to your machine, right click on the underlined link and choose "Save As...". A help page with more information on downloading is provided.

Microsoft Word documents (.doc)

• Click on the link to the Word document.
• If you are not given the option to open the document, save the file to your computer, remembering where you saved it. Then, start Microsoft Word and open the file you just saved. Talk to your system administrators about setting your mime types so you can view these documents another way.
• If you are given the option to open, choose it.
• If you do not click the "Open OLE server in place" button, the document will open in Word automatically. If you do choose this option, the document will open in your browser, but will not be editable.
• If you do not have Word on your machine, a link is provided when necessary for you to download and install the software. Please note - if you do have Word on your machine, do not download and install the viewer.