California Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development

Help Tools

About Help Tools

The instructions provided in the "Toolbox" are NOT all encompassing. They are offered as general information and assistance to download and use the files provided on this site.

File formats used on this site are:

• Portable Document Format (.pdf)
• Excel Pivot Profiles (.xls)
• Excel Text Import Wizard (.txt)
• Comma Separated Value format (.csv)
• Google Earth format (.kmz & .kml)
• WinZip & Executable files (.zip, .exe)

General Information

• Printing PDF Documents
• Data Formats
• Downloading Data

If you experience problems relating to a specific software application, please consult its instruction manual or your appropriate IT representative. Technical assistance is offered here for:

• File types available on this site,
• Downloading electronic files,
• Printing large .pdf files,
• Pivot profiles, and
• Other technical questions related to downloading data.