NANC Help Page

Welcome to the NANC Help page . This page contains some useful Internet tools to help you navigate and negotiate your way around this suite of pages. The following applications are not being endorsed by the Federal Communications Commission , the North American Numbering Council or any one affiliated with the before mentioned agencies.

1. The FCC has added a Portable Document Format (PDF) option to the list of file formats that it offers for selected documents posted on the NANC web site. Documents saved as PDF files retain all of the formatting of the original document including fonts, footnotes, headers, footers, and graphics. These documents can be viewed, navigated, searched, and printed from any Windows, DOS, UNIX, MAC, or OS-2 platform that has Acrobat reader software (free from Adobe Systems, Inc.) installed and configured for use with the browser.

   To view PDF files you must first download Acrobat Reader Software for your particular platform. The downloaded file will be a self-extracting file that will expand into several separate files when you double-click on it's filename. One of the resulting files will be named setup.exe. To install the reader on your system simply double-click on this file and follow the on-screen instructions. NOTE: If you're using Windows from a network, ask your network administrator if the reader has already been installed and where it's located (it's directory path). If it's not already installed, ask your network administrator to install it on the network since Acrobat needs access to Windows directories during installation (normal users probably will not have write permissions to Windows system files on the network).

   Once you've downloaded and installed the reader you'll need to configure it as a browser plug-in or helper application so that you can view any PDF file on the Internet automatically by clicking on its hotlink (just as you would any other web page link). After this one-time setup, you can automatically view any PDF format document.
   
   

2. Microsoft Word Viewer is a free application from the Microsoft web page that enables people who do not use Microsoft Word for Windows® to view documents made with that application. To install the Word Viewer download the Viewer into an empty directory on your computer. For additional help, please read the readme.doc file that will be located in the same directory on your computer as the Word Viewer once you have downloaded it.

3. Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 97 is a free application from the Microsoft web page that enables people who do not use PowerPoint to view documents made with that application. It does not allow them to edit PowerPoint presentations.To install the PowerPoint Viewer download the Viewer into an empty directory on your computer. For additional help, please read the readme.doc file that will be located in the same directory on your computer as the PowerPoint Viewer once you have downloaded it.

The FCC is pleased to offer two automated search tools designed to help our web site visitors quickly and efficiently find the information that they need.

The FCC Digital Index is a new FCC research tool that lets users search a database of Daily Digest entries for FCC documents posted since March 1996.

The FCC Word Search Tool lets users search for keywords or concepts in FCC documents that have been posted in HTML or ASCII Text formats.