The problem is, I have not found a way to convert it into a Word or Excel file. When I do convert, it is unintelligible. Any help would be appreciated. They can be read only by Acrobat Reader. Open a pdf file with another program and you get gibberish.
Many Web sites use pdf files for questionnaires, applications of various sorts, and surveys.
Those you can fill in, as long as you do so on the Web site itself. In the April 15 column, I pointed out that a computer's clock may be losing time because a battery on the motherboard is running out of power, causing the clock maintained by the computer's BIOS to lose time. Several readers wrote to recommend programs that would automatically update the computer's time setting by retrieving the right hour from Web sites with public time servers. I suspect that is a bad idea. Yes, those programs will faithfully correct the time.