• You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader XI or DC, which is free. Without XI or DC, you can type in the document and print it. But you cannot save what you type, and if you email it, a blank document will be sent.

• If you already have Adobe Acrobat Reader, but don’t know what version: Find Adobe Acrobat Reader on your Desktop or click the Start button and find it in your list of All Programs. It should give the version after the name. If not, open the program, click on Help, then click on About Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• If it says either XI or DC, you’re cool. Skip down to "2. Opening the form."

• If you don’t have either XI or DC, you can download the latest version here. Unclick the optional offer, then click Install Now. A window will appear with options. Choose Run. Follow the instructions. It should take only a few minutes for the program to download and install.

• Click here to open the online form.

• Immediately save it to your computer. How you do that will depend on your operating system. Look for the Save icon or or . Or click on File then Save As. (If you don't see an icon or File, move the cursor to the top of the page, and a bar will appear with the Save icon at the right.) Save it to your Desktop (or a Documents folder, if you know how to do that). Leave the name "FC-Nom-blank". Remember (perhaps make a note) where you saved it.

• Close the window with the nomination form. Go to your Desktop or where you saved the form. Double-click to open it.

• Save it with a different name, such as FC-John Doe or just JohnDoe. That way you’ll have the blank form still there if you need it down in step 4. (Save with a different name by clicking File, then Save As. Pick a location and type the name.)

• Click in the first space, for the nominee’s name. Start typing.

• To move from one space to the next, use the Tab key.

• To back up, use Shift-Tab, or just click where you want to be.

• To check a yes or no box, tab to it and use Enter or the space bar. Or just point at it and click.

• In the large text boxes, the font size automatically gets smaller when the box fills up, so you can keep adding text. Please go to the extra, blank page before the font becomes unreadably tiny.

• Frequently save your document as you work on it. Use Save (not Save As). A shortcut for Save is Ctrl-S -- hold the Ctrl key down and hit the letter S.

• Save (not Save As) your document. You can close Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• When you come back, go to your Desktop and find the name of the document you were working on (such as FC-JohnDoe). Double click to open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader. You're back in business.

• Each activity that your nominee participates in needs its own form. For example, if your nominee is a volunteer firefighter and also is a volunteer reader at the school, your nomination will contain two forms.

• Also, the form may not have enough room for everything you want to say. So there’s an extra, blank page behind the form, to catch your overflow. If you don't need it, leave it blank.

• The full document online has 4 pages: a form, a blank page, another form, and another blank page. That lets you describe two activities that your nominee participates in. If you don’t need the second form, leave it blank.

• If your nominee has more than two activities:

Fill out the form for activities 1 and 2. Save and close that document.

To work on activities 3 and 4, start over. Go to your Desktop and open the original "FC-Nom-blank" document. Click File, Save As, and give it a different name like "FC-John Doe3-4."

In the top section, put the nominee's name, then tab down to the activity. (You don't need to put in the addresses, phones, etc. again.) Fill in information for activities 3 and 4.

Repeat for as many activities as you need.

• All forms together are your nomination. It might be two or more documents. We’ll put them all together when we receive them.

• Save your document(s) when you're done.

• Click on the envelope icon on the Adobe Acrobat Reader toolbar and choose Attach to Email. Or you can go to your email and attach the file(s) there.

• If you filled out more than one document, because there were more than 2 activities, be sure to email all the documents. You can send them all attached to one email. In the body of your email message, tell us how many activities your nominee participates in.

• Email it to webmaster@glidecommunityclub.org.

• You can print and snail mail it or drop it at Glide Threadworks, but that seems so old-fashioned!