The Common European Framework in its political and educational context What is the Common European Framework?

Using the electronic version
This electronic version of the Common European Framework of Reference has
a number of features which are designed to help you to find your way around
the document, and to move quickly and easily from one part to another.
These features are part of the Adobe
 Reader software. If you are not
familiar with this, it is worth spending a short time looking through these
notes so that you can get the best out of this material.
Please note that Adobe
 Reader software exists in several versions, and the
precise instructions for its use are often slightly different in the different
versions. These notes cover versions 5 and 6 (Windows). If you are using a
Mac or have an earlier version of the software, you will be able to do the
same things, but you may have to use slightly different commands.
Bookmarks
In the left hand part of your screen, you will see a list of the Chapter and
Appendix headings from the Framework. These are called “bookmarks”. If
you cannot see the list, click on the tab “bookmark” at the left hand edge of
the screen. Clicking this tab opens and closes the bookmarks window.
Most of the items in the bookmarks list have a + sign next to them. Click
this, and you will see a list of the section headings in the chapter. In some
cases, you can click again and open a list of sub-section headings.
If the bookmark heading is a long one, you will not be able to read all of it in
the open window. But if you hold the “hand” symbol over the title, the full
form will appear on the screen.
These bookmarks have two functions:
a) They allow you to get an overview of what is in the material as a whole,
and chapter by chapter.
b) Clicking on a bookmark takes you straight to that section of the text. So
this is a quick and easy way to move to a particular part of the Framework
that you want to refer to.
Try clicking on some of the bookmarks. You can come back to this text by
clicking on the “Using the electronic version” bookmark.
Tip: At the top of the Bookmark window you will see
Click
on the down arrow and click on Hide after Use. This means that when you
click on a bookmark, the text opens in the full screen and is easier to read.
You can open the bookmark window again by clicking on the Bookmark tab at
the left of the screen.

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