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Can I download the Oregon Standards?

Sure. You have several choices:

• You can download the standards in MS Word or Rich Text Format versions from the Download Standards page in the Standards & Assessments section of the OPEN site.
  
  
• You can download the standards as Portable Document Format (PDF) files at the ODE and PASS Web sites (you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plug-in to view and print these files), OR
  
  
• After searching the standards, you can save the search results pages to your hard drive (use your browser's File/Save As or Save Source command) where you can edit the HTML files or convert them to a word-processing program and then edit them (say, for example, you want to add your district information).
  
  It's a bit of an effort, but here's one way to do it using MS Word on the PC. This way most likely works on the Mac, too, but we haven't tested it.

  If you're using Word 6 or later, you can use MS Internet Assistant to convert the search results pages which are table-formatted HTML documents. Internet Assistant is included with Word 97. For Word 6 or 7, you can download Internet Assistant from the Microsoft site: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q153/8/60.asp.

  1. Search the standards by subject or strand. It might be easiest to do one subject at a time.
  2. For ease of formatting in Word, select ALL the benchmarks (3, 5, 8, 10, 12, PASS). That way, you'll end up with all the columns across.
  3. Save the HTML file to your hard drive (File/Save As).
  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you have all the subjects and their strands. Give the saved HTML files meaningful names so you know what order they go in (e.g., english01.html, english02.html, math01.html, math02.html, and so on).
  5. Open Word.
  6. Open the first HTML file, save it as an RTF file (File/Save As), then save it again as a Word (DOC) file.
  7. From the File menu, choose Page Setup and set the document up in Landscape mode and adjust the margins accordingly.
  8. Repeat step 6 for each HTML file.
  9. Open the first DOC file. Edit out the extraneous stuff (comments, navigation buttons, footer, etc). Save the file.
  10. Open the next DOC file. Select the entire table. Copy (Edit/Copy) it to the Clipboard. Switch back to the first file and go to the end of the table (last row, last column). Press TAB to create a new row, then Paste (Edit/Paste) in the contents of the Clipboard. Save the file.
  11. Repeat step 10 for each document.

This will give you one large document. Instead, you could make a separate document for each subject if you preferred--omit steps 10 and 11 and repeat step 9 for each DOC file.

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