To download any file onto your computer:
- Right-click on the file that you want to download
- From the pop-up menu that appears, select "Save Target As..."
- You can then save the file into any folder on your computer
- Once saved, you can open the file in the appropriate program as usual
Word Documents, Excel Spreadsheets and PowerPoint Presentations
If you have Microsoft Office (which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access) installed on your computer and are using Internet Explorer as your browser, then you can view Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents within the browser window as if they were a normal Web page.
Click on the link as normal and Internet Explorer will ask whether you want to open the file or save it. Click on 'Open' and Word/Excel/PowerPoint will be launched within your browser window and the document will be displayed as if it were on your system. If you then wish to save the file onto your computer, simply select File > Save As from the Menu Bar on Internet Explorer and save it just as you would any other file.
PDF Files? What are they?
Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is the open de facto standard for electronic document distribution worldwide. Adobe PDF is a universal file format that preserves all the fonts, formatting, graphics, and color of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. As such, most documents available for download on the Web are increasingly in the PDF format. To view a PDF document, you will need to install Adobe Reader which is available free from Adobe - to download a copy, click on the icon below. Once installed, your browser will display PDF documents within the browser window.
