This folder contains this readme and three template files:

1. FAFO Cert Appendix Template
2. FAFO Cert Certificate of Compliance Template
3. FAFO Cert Petition Template

Each template has explanatory text, highlighted in yellow and in a text box. This text is formatted as non printing, so it shouldn't affect how the PDF that you generate looks.

If you have any questions, please email mark@FirstAmendmentFunding.org or call Mark Bennett at 713.224.1747.

You are welcome to redistribute these templates, provided that you do not change their form and that you include this readme with them. If you think of an improvement, please email mark@FirstAmendmentFunding.org

Things You Should Know:

You should know how to use styles in Microsoft Word. Chances are that you don't. If you were using styles correctly, you would not be using tabs or spaces to align things horizontally, nor would you be using paragraph returns to align things vertically. 

Some day I'll write a tutorial on this. 

For now:

Every paragraph of text in your document should be in one of the styles already included in the template. 

If you want a paragraph in your document to look different than it does, you probably want to apply a different style, instead of changing that paragraph's characteristics ad hoc. 

If you are sure you have applied the right style (for example, "Normal" for the body of the text in the cert petition) and you are sure you want to change the appearance of the paragraph, you should modify the style so that all paragraphs in that style look the same.

You should know how to autogenerate a table of contents.

You should know how to autogenerate an index of authorities.