Before submitting any forms to IRB-01 you should be intimately familiar with our requirements. Please read our instructions for completing forms as well as our "Submitting Paperwork to IRB-01" page before submitting any paperwork. Some forms (e.g. the Informed Consent form) have their own specific instructions. You are required to be familiar with any pertinent information prior to submitting these forms.

ALL FORMS MUST BE TYPED!

Failure to complete forms properly may result in your submission being returned to you!

NOTE: some types of submissions (for example, reporting a protocol deviation) do not have a required form available. If you need to submit information to the Board and a form is not available, please provide a cover letter detailing the content of your submission.

If you have any questions about what form to use or how to complete a form, please contact the IRB-01 office.

Instructions:	Word 97-2003/XP Version Updated:	Word 2007 Version Updated:
Unlocking new MS Word forms in order to execute revisions	07/01/2002	04/21/2008
Automatically track changes when revising documents in Word	07/01/2002	04/22/2008
View Hidden Text in IRB Documents using Word 2007		04/18/2008
Adverse Event definitions	03/01/2003
Adverse Event Evaluation Guide	03/01/2003
Completing the Informed Consent Form	05/02/2007
Unanticipated Problem Involving Risk to Subjects or Others REPORTING GUIDE	05/01/2007
Unanticipated Problem Involving Risk to Subjects or Others DEFINITIONS	05/01/2007

Fixing Microsoft Word to correctly print page numbers on the Informed Consent Form or other IRB documents.

Older versions of Microsoft Word (e.g. Word 97) sometimes have the tendancy to show page numbers correctly on the screen, but do not print the numbers correctly. For example, in our Informed Consent Form the footer is set up to display page numbers as :

Page numbers in the footer as seen on the computer screen:

1 of 5 2 of 5 3 of 5 etc.

This appears correctly on screen, but when printed does not properly list the total number of pages on each page. In the example below, it should be 5 total pages.

Page numbers shown when above is printed.

1 of 1 2 of 2 3 of 3 etc.

This problem can potentially be resolved for free by visiting the Microsoft.com Office Download Center.

In particular, there are three updates to Microsoft Office that sometimes correct this problem:

1. Office 97 Service Release 1 (SR-1)
2. Office 97 Service Release 2 ValuPack
3. Office 97 Service Release 2b (SR-2b)

If you download these Service Releases and they do not correct the problem, you only have two options:

1. Print your form on a lab computer (such as in the Medical Sciences Library in the Communicore Building)

or

2. Upgrade your Microsoft Office package to Office XP/2003. The University of Florida standard license IS FREE for UF faculty, staff, and students. Contact your departmental IT professional for more information.

 

Information for updating software at the VA is not currently available.