<p>You guys are all techno wizards and all that sounds GREAT. However, my kids, who by the way used paper apps, did what Sac's kid did. They handwrote one line type answers of information. For short answers as well as essays, they typed those on a word program, printed it out, cut it and glue sticked it onto the application. For the little "charts", these were also typed on the computer (making their own tables to look like those on the app) and printed and glue sticked onto the application. Worked for us. </p>
<p>I offer that for the less technical folks out there ;-).
Susan</p>
<p>For those who are still struggling with Adobe Pro, if you download the Common App into Adobe Pro and open it, the text boxes will automaticlly show - this will give you an idea of what you have to do to the other apps. In the other apps you have to "draw" or superimpose the text boxes onto the application lines, pick your font and size, and "change modes" to type in the boxes. when the text boxes are all built and sized, you can just tab from box to box. In the Common App the text boxes can be seen while you're typing, when we added boxes to other apps, the outlines of the boxes disappeared when we changed modes - never could get around that.</p>
<p>The advantage is being able to change font sizes - we needed to squeeze 2 more words into a box - went down one font size and it worked.</p>
<p>If you look in Adobe Help under "forms" or filling out forms, the instructions will walk you through which toolbars need to be opened, and which icons to click to change from "painting" mode to the "word processing" mode. Good luck - its harder to explain than it is to actually do it.</p>
<p>She started to use Susan's method, but found Adobe easier than making a chart in Word. Figuring out how to do the first box was the hard part.</p>