Be advised, update 6 includes info about a revised executive summary form. Be sure to use the new form. Good luck.
Is anyone else having a problem editing the new form? I can open it in Adobe Reader 6.0 but when I try and type something into the form fields, I get the error message saying I can’t save it (which means we can’t submit it along with our Chairman’s Award Word document). The FIRST web site indicates that it should be editable using Adobe Reader 5.0. I can edit and save it using Adobe Acrobat 5.0 (which I have on my PC at work).
The Adobe web site indicates that the “Not Allowed” security settings must be changed in the “Change the Document” area but I don’t think I can do that.
Am I doing something wrong?
I’d ask in the Q&A and email FIRSTR at [email protected]
We have a full version of Adobe Acrobat, but I do not know of a version of just Acrobat Reader that can actually edit and change a file. I could be wrong, but I don’t think I am.
I had the same problem today. I just updated Adobe to 5.0 and when I tried to save it, I got the message that said I couldn’t save it because I needed the full version. I’m currently talking to my IT support at work to see if I can get the “full version.” If not, I’m in the same boat and won’t be able to submit my Chairman’s application either. 
As suggested, I e-mailed FIRST and posted a question to the Q&A. I will let you know what I hear back.
In reader you should be able to use the text tool to select, copy the form from the .pdf file and paste in all into a blank Word Document and then save it as a .doc. I’d test that out and if it works for you, directly ask in the Q&A and email if that’s acceptable.
FIRST is recognizing the problems we are having and have posted the following on their website, “We are currently working to resolve the problems encountered with the Executive Summary Form. A new form will be in place shortly. Thank you for your patience.”
“Change the document” is not available in the reader. It’s only available in the full version. This is the same problem people had when FIRST released the 2004 manual. If you only have the reader and downloaded the password protected manual you had to type in the password everytime because you can’t change the document and remove the password. This is why most people downloaded the manual again after they posted the nonpassword version. It would inhale audibly for FIRST to require people to purchase the full version to submit the Chairman’s application.
I just opened the Exec Summary Form and it did not come up as a pdf which is good. Do we copy it and submit it as page 5 of the chairman’s entry or do we attach it when we send in the 4 pages. Anyone know??
Shawn
You would send it in as separate attachment.
Our executive summary will probably get tweaked a bit more, but you get the idea.
It says in the document not to restructure. We took this to mean that we could not change the font, margins, or add more than three lines to each section. However, we did add a space between each section to make it more readable. Have you asked on the Q&A if you can change margins/font?
Thanks,
No.
I took it to mean I couldn’t change their font or their form, but I could use any font in my answers as long as it’s not less than 10.
I took it to mean that you are limited to using the space provided on the form as it is being used as a cover sheet for your submission. So it’s one page in length. Font = size 10 or greater.
There is a new form posted on the FIRST site and it is a WORD file.
It is dated 1-29-04 but what I downloaded yesterday was a .pdf
I submitted our chairman’s award and executive summary yesterday, and received a reply back that everything was “received and complies with all criteria”. Feel free to use our executive summary already linked from this thread - it’s a .doc
so does anyone know for sure if we are allowed to change the font or font size of our responses?
My font and size is different from their questions, and has been accepted as “received and complies”.
I went to the FIRST website and all I found was a WORD document, so I put our information in that and sent that, along with the submission, to the email address.
Here’s a question, after I sent it in the submission, I got an email that says “received”, was I supposed to get a message that included “and complies” or not? If it doesn’t say “and complies”, is that bad?
I waited almost two days to get the response “received” and I was worried the whole time! I didn’t get “complies”.