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DocMorph registrationTop of pageNext section

The National Library of Medicine requires you to register online before you can use DocMorph. The registration is quite unobtrusive, and there is no password to remember or write down. The following information is required by NLM:

  • Name
  • Organization (if applicable)
  • Address
  • Email Address

To register for using DocMorph, follow these steps:

  1. Point your browser to the registration page,

    http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/ApplyCheckA.asp

  2. Fill out the registration form. Remember which email address you used. It will be needed for login.
  3. Click the Submit button.
This completes the registration process. You are now ready to use DocMorph.


DocMorph tutorialTop of pageNext section
  1. Point your browser to the login page,

    http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/LoginCheckA.asp

  2. Type a previously registered email address
  3. Click the Submit button
  4. Click the Create a PDF file link
  5. Click the Browse button
  6. Navigate into a directory where your Microsoft Word file is located:
  7. Select the file to be converted
  8. Click the Open button
  9. Let us assume that we need to merge two different Microsoft Word files into a single PDF file. (Otherwise skip to step 12). Click on the second Browse button
  10. Select the second file to be added to the resulting (single) PDF file
  11. Click the Open button
  12. Click the Submit button to create the PDF file
  13. Wait until the DocMorph website finished processing your input file (or files)
  14. Click on the Download... link. This will open the newly created PDF file in your browser window
  15. Save the PDF file to your computer's hard disk
  16. Save the PDF file to your computer's hard disk. First select the directory where the resulting file should be saved
  17. DocMorph has given the resulting file a numerical name, which needs to be changed
  18. Type a new file name
  19. Do not forget that the file name must end with ".PDF"
  20. Check the converted file by opening it in Adobe Acrobat Reader


DocMorph tutorial (with graphics)Top of pageNext section

Many of us are visual learners. Here is the same tutorial with screen captures:

  1. Point your browser to the login page,

    http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/LoginCheckA.asp

  2. Type a previously registered email address
  3. Click the Submit button:

  4. Click the Create a PDF file link:

  5. Click the Browse button:

  6. Navigate into a directory where your Microsoft Word file is located:

  7. Select the file to be converted
  8. Click the Open button:

  9. Let us assume that we need to merge two different Microsoft Word files into a single PDF file. (Otherwise skip to step 12). Click on the second Browse button:

  10. Select the second file to be added to the resulting (single) PDF file:
  11. Click the Open button.

  12. Click the Submit button to create the PDF file:

  13. Wait until the DocMorph website finished processing your input file (or files):

  14. Click on the Download... link. This will open the newly created PDF file in your browser window:

  15. Save the PDF file to your computer's hard disk:

  16. Save the PDF file to your computer's hard disk. First select the directory where the resulting file should be saved:

  17. DocMorph has given the resulting file a numerical name, which needs to be changed:

  18. Type a new file name:

  19. Do not forget that the file name must end with ".PDF":

  20. Check the converted file by opening it in Adobe Acrobat Reader:


 
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