What are these Files: Files available to download are mainly instructional files for student use. You should be able to figure out what are most of the files, perhaps with the help of the ReadMe files (see below). Some files, however, may be files intended as files that I instruct students to download and, without instruction, may not be understandable or useable by you. Email me if you have questions.

Where are the Files: Students taking one of my courses should first look at the main help page for that course, which contains links to some of the files, and should then look through the list of files available in the directory (folder) for that course. In the course-specific directories you will find files for course assignments and other helpful documents. Other files relevant to that course may appear in the main download directory, and in the various sub-directories, including the directories for the specific courses. The "Data" folder contains data files (mainly SPSS files), and documentation files for the data, that you can use for course data analysis projects. Please note that the help pages for my specific courses have links to some of the most important help files, but to see all of the files available that might help you will need to look at the list of files in the course's directory and in other relevant folders.

How to Download a File: To download a file, right click on the file name and save the file to your local hard drive (right click, save target as).

Trouble Opening a File Directly from My Web Site: If you have trouble opening an SPSS or any other type of file from my web site by clicking on the file name in your web browser, then 1) first download the file to your local hard drive (right click, save target as), and then 2) open the file (start SPSS or other application program, then File-Open). That will usually solve the problem.

Trouble Down-Loading with non-IE Browsers: If you have trouble down-loading files with Netscape Navigator or any browser other than Internet Explorer, try using Internet Explorer instead.

ReadMe files: For some of the files or groups of files I have a "ReadMe" text (txt) file that you can click on or download to get some explanatory information about the available files. Look for the files that have "ReadMe" in the file name and......Read Them!

Types of Files: Several specific types of files are here, as explained below. You can tell the type of file by the extension (the last part of the name).

• Statistical files are either SAV files (SPSS files) or SYS files (Systat/Mystat files, which you can open with SPSS).

• Spreadsheet files are XLS (Excel files) or WK1/WKS (Lotus files, which you can open with Excel).

• Word processing files are DOC (Word or WordPerfect), which you can open with Word; WP5 (WordPerfect 5.1), which you can open with Word; WPD (later version of WordPerfect), which you can only open with WordPerfect for Windows; or MCW, which are Macintosh Word files. If a WordPerfect 5.1 file (WP5) is available as well as a Word (DOC) file, you will probably get a better-formatted document if you open the WP5 file in Word than if you open the DOC file in Word, but you will probably get the best result if you open the WP5 file using WordPerfect (if you have the WordPerfect program).

• HTML or HTM files are html (web) files that you can open with your web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape).

• MHT files are web archive files that you can open with Internet Explorer. You may need a newer version of IE if you have trouble. Also, if you cannot open an MHT file, I usually have an HTML/HTM version of the file that you can open instead; open the HTML/HTM file and you will see the same text as in the MHT file, but you will not see the graphics.

• TXT files are text files which you can open with a wordprocesser (e.g. Word) or a text editor (e.g. Notepad).

• PDF files are Adobe Acrobat files (see below).

• ZIP files are compressed files (see below).

• Some of the data files, such as SAV files, have accompanying TXT files, and the TXT files contain information about the corresponding data files.

• You should be able to view TXT and HTML/HTM files by just left-clicking on the file. Other files (MHT, SAV, DOC, XLS, etc.) you may be able to view/open by left-clicking, or you might want to download (right click and save as) to your computer and then open from there; downloading to your computer and then opening sometimes gives a better result.

• Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files: This is file format commonly used for documents on the web. You need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer in order to use these files. If you need Adobe Acrobat Reader you can download it for free from:
  www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

• Compressed (ZIP) files: Some files available to download are compressed into 'ZIP' files for faster downloading and to take less space. To use ZIP files, you need to first unzip the file to get the instructional file. (See the note below if you do not know how to do this). Some files are available to download in either zipped or non-zipped format.

Help! I Can't Get Downloading to Work on My Computer: Then stop fighting it and go to one of the PSU computer labs, such as the excellent lab on the second floor of the URBN building. You should not have any trouble downloading files from my website using those computers. Make sure you use a PC, not a Mac, since Mac users will tend to have more compatibility problems.

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Using compressed ZIP files:

Macintosh users can download the MacZip program from:

Both Windows and Mac users can find unzip utilities and other software at:

After you unzip the file(s), you can open the file(s) with the appropriate application program.