This page contains the following topics:
Getting Help
This page contains select topics that help you to understand and use the NCI CTRP Registration Site. You can find more comprehensive documentation in the NCI Clinical Trials Reporting Program Registration Site User's Guide.
Creating CTRP Registration Site Accounts
Creating New CTRP Registration Site Accounts Using caGrid or NCI Credentials
Logging In to the CTRP Registration Site
Searching for Trials
Main Steps for Registering Trials
Working with Search Results
Viewing Trial Details
Editing Trial Details
Granting and Revoking Administrative Authority
Managing Organizational Access Through Trial Ownership
Displaying and Removing Trial Ownership
Managing Your User Account Profile
Updating Trials
Amending Trials
Converting Documents to PDF
Trial-related documents uploaded as Microsoft Word (.doc), Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, or .xlsb), and WordPerfect files contain text that abstractors can copy and paste directly. PDFs (portable document format) contain text that abstractors can copy only if the content was created from other text-based applications such as Word or Excel.
Abstractors can not copy and paste text from scanned documents
Avoid uploading PDFs of scanned documents. They can not be edited, copied, or read with OCR (optical character recognition) applications.
Microsoft provides instructions for converting files to PDFs both on their website and in the Help documentation in each of its applications.
When searching for help, use "save file as pdf" as the search term.
You do not need a document converter in Mac OSX. Instead, print your documents to a PDF file.
How to Convert Text-Based Files to PDFs in Mac OSX
- Open your text file in its original format (such as .doc or .xls).
- Click File > Print.
- In the Print window, click the PDF button at the bottom-left and select the Save as PDF option.
- Choose the file location, rename your PDF file, and then click Save.