The Essential Guide to Family & Medical Leave

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• Financial planning spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel format (XLS), which
you can use with Microsoft’s Excel or another spreadsheet program that
can read XLS files (see “Using the Financial Planning Spreadsheets,”
below).
• MP3 audio files that you can listen to using your computer’s media or
MP3 player (see “Listening to the Audio Files,” below).
See below for a list of forms, their file names, and their file formats.
Listening Without Installing
If you don’t want to copy 44 MB of audio files to your hard disk, you can
“play” the CD-ROM on your computer. For details, see “Playing the Audio
Files Without Installing,” below.
Installing the Form Files Onto Your Computer
Before you can do anything with the files on the CD-ROM, you need to
install them onto your hard disk. In accordance with U.S. copyright laws,
remember that copies of the CD-ROM and its files are for your personal
use only.
Insert the Forms CD-ROM and do the following:
Windows 2000, XP, and Vista Users
Follow the instructions that appear on the screen. (If nothing happens when
you insert the Forms CD-ROM, then (1) double click the My Computer
icon; (2) double click the icon for the CD-ROM drive into which the Forms
CD-ROM was inserted; (3) double click the file WELCOME.EXE.)
By default, all the files are installed to the \FMLA Guide Resources folder
in the \Program Files folder of your computer. A folder called “FMLA Guide
Resources” is added to the “Programs” folder of the Start menu.