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 You can do IT is a regular feature
of laterlife.com aimed at trying to help
laterlife visitors make the most of Information
Technology on or off the web.
Jackie Sherman who runs the
You can do IT Question & Answer
section is an IT trainer and author. Jackie has spent
her career in education and specialises in teaching
IT to adults. Her courses for adults include such
topics as MS Office, the Internet, e-mail and basic
web page authoring.
 Jackie has also written the three books shown
here - you can find more details about these by
clicking on the cover images above. Jackie has
also been running a course specifically for over
50s.
 Via laterlife.com Jackie aims to
particularly help those new to IT and the web to build
up knowledge and confidence, so no question is too
basic. At the same time she will cover Q&As for the
more experienced user.
So if you would like to ask a question
of Jackie, why not email her jackie@laterlife.com
or if you have discovered something
which may be of interest to others in making the most
of the web, then she would love to hear about that too
jackie@laterlife.com
July 2005
Q: I recently applied for a
part-time job and was asked to download the application form. It was
a PDF file. Can you explain what these are and how to use them?
A: PDF files are “portable document”
files created so that the layout and contents cannot be edited or
changed by mistake but which will always be viewable and print in
their original format. They are often used for manuals, timetables,
complicated forms and other documents published on the Web.
To open one on your computer, you will need the software provided by
Adobe known as Acrobat Reader which can be installed free from their
website: www.adobe.com.
Once the Reader is installed, any PDF file you download from the Web
will automatically open and you will then see the document in a
window showing the following main toolbar buttons:
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