The 4-H Career Portfolio is available on the 4-H web page located at http://4h.unl.edu, look under the table of contents for 4-H Career Portfolio. The 4-H Career Portfolio is designed as a Word document.  If you do not have access to Microsoft Word you can contact you County Extension Office for a copy of the free program on CD or you can download Open Office from http://www.openoffice.org.

The Open Office program will open most Word documents unless there are a large number of macros running in the program which is the case with the 4-H Career Portfolio document. Therefore, if you use the Open Office program you will need to open the file named 4-H Career Portfolio Open Office format.

To download Open Office from the web:
• Go to http://www.openoffice.org.
• Find the box titled “download” and click on “the stable version (1.1.4)”
• Answer the following questions in the blue boxes:
• Select language:  English
• Select Operating System:  Whatever you are running - most are probably using Windows
• Select Download Site:  USA-Indiana U
• Select button “Continue to Download”
• You will see a box entitled “File Download”
• Click on “save option” and save to your desktop or selected location
• Once download is complete you can open the program from your program folder.
• If you have a successful download you should find the program “OpenOffice.org 1.1.4” in your program folder. You should also see the quick start icon on the bottom of your desktop screen, the icon looks like two black seagulls on a blue seascape.

To open the 4-H Career Portfolio file click on File on the tool bar of your Word or Open Office program and select open. The files used for Word will have a .doc extension and the files for Open Office will have an .sxw extension at the end of the file name. Select the appropriate file you want to open. A message about macros will appear when you open the 4-H Career Portfolio file. You will select the box that contains “enable macros”. There are a number of files on your CD which include guidelines for filling out the 4-H Career Portfolio, as well as information about the Nebraska 4-H Awards program. You may want to take time to open each file and review the information contained in them.
 
 

8/19/2005