We are listening to subscribers who, in the current flux of the industry, tell us they are more pressured and have even less time to read our comprehensive interviews. They want easier ways to reference the specific details.

While we don't intend to abandon the comprehensive interviews that we are unique in offering, we have we have taken advantage of the Adobe Acrobat publishing capabilities to increase their utility and value to our readers. From this issue onward we shall have a new section called Interview/Discussion Highlights. The Executive Summary section will retain the brief overview. But we have added a new section to which interested readers may turn for concatenated "juicy" quotes from the interview. Each "Interview Highlights" summary is about 20% of the length of the Interview and about three times as long as the Executive Summary of the Interview. A reader may begin with the Executive Summary and turn to the quotes or go on to the entire interview or article. We have been publishing the Executive Summary on our web site. From now on only Cook Report subscribers will receive the full Executive Summary, and a much shortened version will be available to non-subscribers on our web site and via the mail list: cookrepsum@compucomis.net.

Finally, we have found out how to both add internal links to the PDF version of the COOK Report and make urls into live web links. Blue text is ether an internal "hot link" or a "live link" to a url. In your Acrobat Reader Version 4.0 you will observe the "Hand Tool". This is the fifth Icon across in the top menu bar, drawn in the shape of a hand. Click on the hand tool to activate it and then moving the tool to the PDF COOK Report page where you see blue headings or blue type click on them. You will be taken instantaneously to the destination just as though the link were an html "hot" link. Note that the page display will be a function of the size of the window in which you are viewing your COOK Report. In Acrobat Reader Version 4.0 there are three page size icons in the top menu bar. Clicking these icons will change the size of the page display. To use the live web links you must make and save a Preference change in your Acrobat Reader Version 4.0. Go to the file menu and chose Preferences. From the Preferences chose the Web Link menu. In the Web Link menu by following the instructions, create a link to the browser that you are using. Those using Version 5.0 will note that the menu bars have changed. Note especially that it appears that Version 5.0 will configure itself to automatically link with your default web browser when using the hand tool to connect to a "live" web link.

You will find that the "In This Issue" box on the lower right of page one now works as a true table of contents. You will also find that you can jump at will from the Executive Summary section to interview quotes to the interview and back again. We would very much appreciate your feedback and suggestions on our format upgrade, and of course, we always appreciate your good recommendation of The Cook Report to your colleagues.