THE JANE COFFIN CHILDS MEMORIAL FUND

These help articles are for historical reference only. They do not apply to this year's application.

Microsoft Word allows for more formatting styles than the Internet formatting language, HTML. When you paste from Microsoft Word, our system attempts to render your text into HTML on a best effort basis. The best conversion results are achieved when you use very basic formatting in your Word documents.

Clicking on the Paste from Word button () will launch a window into which you can paste your Word content to remove any unwanted formatting.

To delete an attachment on a page of your application,

1. select the checkbox in the Delete column of the attachment
2. click the Delete button (next to the Attach button)
1. to finish deleting the attachment, click the Confirm Delete button
2. to cancel the deletion process, click Cancel
   

The correct online application URL is http://info.med.yale.edu/jccfund/application.



Any other URLs that you may have bookmarked should be changed to this URL.

• Adobe Acrobat (.pdf)
• Microsoft Office Documents
• Microsoft Word (.doc)
• Microsoft Powerpoint (.ppt)
• Microsoft Excel (.xls)
• Images
• JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
• PNG (.png)
• Bitmap (.bmp)

After uploading your files to your application, download [Right-click the filename, and click "Save Link As" (Mozilla Firefox) or "Save Target As" (Internet Explorer)] them from the application and open them in the program you used to produce the file. It should be the same file as the one you uploaded.

• You will need a web browser that has Javascript activated.
• Supported web browsers include
  
• Internet Explorer 5 and above,
  
• Netscape 6 and above, 
• Firefox 1 and above.

These are frequently asked questions about the online application process. Please go ahead and request an answer if your answer cannot be found among the answers here.

Note that each Help document is labeled with the deadlines to which it is applicable.

Notice: For deadline February 1, 2006, please use this online application.

Please note that this online application does not replace the paper process. After completing the online application, you will be required to print out the whole application for submission. All the old guidelines for the submission of the paper application apply.

You are required to submit your online application by February 1, 2006. Your paper copies must also be postmarked latest February 1, 2006.