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Making Foolkit Your Home Page

Searching on Foolkit

Foolkit search is powered by Google technology and therefore all the basic principles of forming search queries within Google also apply to searching on Foolkit. To learn more, try one of the following resources:

• The Essentials of Google Search
• 12 Quick Tips To Search Google Like An Expert
• Bare bones 101: A basic tutorial on searching the web

Downloading and opening Word and PDF files

Downloading PDF versions is quicker than downloading RTF or Word versions.

If you keep being asked by your computer how to open the file, you can choose to either tick the option to open the file this way every time in future or you may choose to tick the option to stop asking you this question every time. We tick the option to open the file this way every time and so immediately after we click on the document link it springs open in either Word or Acrobat Reader.

What if you want Text files to open in Word each time you click a link and Firefox keeps saving it to file or insists on asking you what to do? This applies to problems with any type of file.

1. At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Tools menu, and select Options.
2. Selcect the Applications panel.
3. Find Microsoft Word Document in the list and click on it to select it.
4. Click on the drop-down arrow in the Action column for the Microsoft Word Document entry and select Use Microsoft Office Word.. Then click OK.

If you have trouble viewing a PDF file in Firefox then view this Support Page.

We advise against downloading and storing a copy of the Act on your computer. There are copyright issues and also there is the danger that this version on your computer will unwittingly go out of date when a new version is posted.

Acrobat Reader

If you don't already have it, then download Acrobat Reader
for free to open and read the PDF files.