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On this website you will find that many documents and publications published in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format). If you do not have appropriate readers to view these documents, download the latest versions free.

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Get Acrobat Reader A document in PDF retains the page structure and style of the original document (such as page numbering, footnotes at the bottom of each page, presentation of graphics). Therefore, for downloading or printing from the website, the PDF version is a better solution. Acrobat Reader can be downloaded free from the Adobe website.

Microsoft file converters and viewers

To read Microsoft documents, download Microsoft viewers and converters.

ZIP files

ZIP files enable groups of files to be downloaded rather than downloading files one by one. Some files are in an executable self-extracting ZIP format so there is no other software needed.  The following are suggested sites offering zip archive compression tools:

Page updated: 30 May 2006