1. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader.

To open a GE Identity Program document on your computer, first install the Adobe Acrobat Reader program. It is available at no cost

•on the CD-ROM GE Identity Program Standards & Guidelines, available from the GE Identity Website or Hotline

•from Adobe through most online services or its World Wide Web site, http://www.adobe.com

Open the Acrobat Reader Guide in the Help menu to familiarize yourself with Acrobat’s navigational tools. They include

•thumbnails

•bookmarks

•other toolbar buttons

•scroll bars

•keyboard shortcuts

These tools help you move easily around and through any Adobe Acrobat document, including all GE Identity Program documents, to find quickly the information you seek.

For assistance installing and using the Adobe Acrobat Reader program,

contact your local computer technical support.

2. Open the document.

To open a GE Identity Program document once Adobe Acrobat Reader has been installed, follow these steps:

•Insert the disk containing the GE Identity Program document. If the disk does not automatically open to a window, double-click the disk icon.

•Optional: To copy the GE Identity Program document to your hard disk, drag the document icon from the open window to your hard disk icon.

•Double-click the icon of the GE Identity Program document to open it.

Once the GE Identity Program document is open, familiarize yourself with the navigational tools provided in the Adobe Acrobat Reader program, if you have not done so already.

This document includes a brief description of some of the standard tools you will use most often in viewing GE Identity Program documents. For guidelines on using

•thumbnails and bookmarks, see pages 02 and 03

•custom links, see page 04

•the Document Plan on the CD-ROM GE Identity Program Standards & Guidelines, see page 05

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*Note: In the 3.01 and earlier versions of Acrobat Reader, the Acrobat page number shown below the thumbnail does not correspond to the GE Identity Program document page number

in the upper-right corner of each document page. In the 4.0 and later versions of Acrobat Reader, the Acrobat and document page numbers are the same.

.GuidTo increase the width of the navigation pane and display more thumbnails at once, drag the window splitter (located below the vertical scroll bar) to the right, as shown in the example at the left.

Thumbnails help locate pages with pictures, but all-text pages can appear confusingly similar

at thumbnail size, and the time required for thumbnails to be drawn on the screen can slow navigation.

For faster navigation, use bookmarks, described on page 03.

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navigation pane

scroll bar

toolbar

Additional custom navigational tools

—links—are built into GE Identity Program documents, as shown in the examples at the left.

As an Acrobat tool like the hand tool is scrolled over a page, it changes to a pointer hand when a link is found.

To go to the linked destination, click the link.

Note: Links between documents are accessible only if the linked document is available.