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Table of contents
Minimum system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Software License Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Adobe® Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Installing and starting the MCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
How to use the MCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Online help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Searching the MCP database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Navigating within documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Printing documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Copying and pasting text and graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Minimum system requirements

• Pentium equivalent personal computer
• Microsoft® Windows® 98 Second Edition, Windows® Millennium Edition, Windows® NT 4.0
with Service Pack 6, Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 2, Windows® XP Professional or Home
Edition, Windows® XP Tablet PC Edition
• 64 MB application RAM
• 60 MB of available hard-disk space
• For best viewing results, a color SVGA monitor running at 800 × 600 resolution (minimum) is
recommended

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Software License Agreement

By installing, copying or otherwise using the MCP software product, you agree to be bound by all
the terms of this license agreement.
Grant of License: The American Concrete Institute (ACI) grants you a nonexclusive,
nontransferable license to use the MCP system according to the terms and conditions herein. The
software may be used only on computers owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by you. Neither
concurrent use on two or more computers, nor use in a local area network or other network is
permitted without separate authorization and the payment of other license fees.
The software may not be modified, translated or reverse engineered. The original software
delivered hereunder, and any copies made by you remain the property of ACI. Your license—
whether purchased by a private company or purchased under federal contract—may not be
assigned, sublicensed or otherwise transferred, and the CD-ROM disks may not be distributed to
parties who do not have a paid license. ACI may terminate this license if you are in default of any
terms or conditions hereof.
Disclaimer of Warranty: ACI makes no warranty of representation, either expressed or implied,
with respect to this software or its content, quality, performance, merchantability, or fitness for a
particular purpose, and under no circumstances does ACI warrant that the product will operate
uninterrupted or error-free. You, the licensee, are assuming the entire risk as to its content, quality,
and performance.
In no event will ACI be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages
resulting from any defect in or use of the software. ACI will not be liable for any programs or data
stored or used with this product, including the costs of recovering said programs or data.
This disclaimer and warrant and the remedy for physical defects in the software set forth below are
exclusive and in lieu of all others, oral or written, expressed or implied. No ACI agent or employee
is authorized to make any modification, extension, or addition to this warranty.
If any physical defects are found in the product, under normal use, during the first ninety (90) days
after delivery, your sole remedy is replacement of the defective item without charge.

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Copyrights: The compilation of information included in this product is copyrighted by ACI. The
software and indexes of information residing on this product are original works of authorship
created by ACI and are fully subject to the copyright ownership rights of ACI under copyright laws
of the United States. Certain other software documents residing on this product are subject to the
copyright ownership of other organizations. You may not delete or alter in any manner the
copyright notices appearing on or in conjunction with the software, packaging, or documents
residing on this product.

Third-Party Beneficiaries: You are hereby notified that persons and entities that have software
included on the product are third-party beneficiaries to this agreement as it applies to their
respective software products included with this product.

Prevailing Agreement: In the event of any conflict between the terms and conditions of this
agreement, and the terms and conditions of any license agreements appearing with or in the
software products comprising the software, this agreement shall prevail.

Export: You agree that you will not export or re-export the software without the appropriate United
States or foreign government licenses.

U.S. Government Restricted Rights: If the products are acquired under the terms of a
proposal or agreement with the U.S. Government or any contractor thereof, the products are subject
to the following: (a) For acquisition by or on behalf of civilian agencies, as necessary to obtain
protection as “commercial computer software” and related documentation in accordance with the
terms of this commercial software agreement as specified in 48 C.F.R. 12.212 of the Federal
Acquisition Regulations and its successors; (b) For acquisition by or behalf of units of the
Department of Defense (DOD) as necessary to obtain protection as “commercial computer
software” and related documentation in accordance with the terms of this commercial computer
software license as specified in 48 C.F.R. 227-7202 of the DOD F.A.R. Supplement and its
successors.

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Adobe® Reader
The MCP electronic document requires the Adobe® Reader Search program. The Adobe® Reader
program is provided on the MCP CD-ROM.

Installing and starting the MCP

This guide includes directions to the MCP on a single-user computer. The installation does not
install the ACI documents to the local hard drive, requiring the CD to be in the computer when the
program is used. To install the MCP on a hard drive or on a multi-user network environment, please
contact technical support.

Installing
To install the MCP, the MCP disk must be in the CD-ROM drive on your system. Exit any other
currently active programs. Select Start, then Run. Type the drive letter (e.g., E:) where the MCP
disc is located, followed by \setup.exe. Follow the instructions on the screen.

Starting
• Make sure you have successfully installed the program. See the previous section
for installation instructions.
• Place the MCP CD in your CD-ROM drive.
• Select Start, then Programs, and ACI. Double click on MCP 2005 to start the MCP.
The MCP program will appear and the Main Menu will appear.

How to use the MCP

With the CD version of the Manual of Concrete Practice, you can quickly find the documents you
need. You can search for specific or general terms, find cross-references for building codes, and
print both data and images. Your computer does the work of finding the data you need, allowing
you to spend your time doing your job.

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Online help
To access the help file for Adobe® Reader, click on the help menu at the top of the screen and select
Adobe® Reader Help. The MCP contains an electronic copy of this manual on the CD as well. To
access the manual: from the Main Menu, click the Help button at the bottom of the window.

Searching the MCP database

You can reach the search screen by choosing Search from the Main Menu, or by clicking on the
Search button on the toolbar of Adobe® Reader.
The Search window enables you to search the entire MCP database. By default, your search will be
a full text search of all the documents in the MCP. You can also search by Title, Author, or Keyword
by typing your search terms into the appropriate boxes in the advanced search options. The
advanced search options can be activated by clicking on the Use Advanced Search Options link at
the bottom of the search screen. There are numerous search methods available in the Adobe®
Reader—these are described in detail in the Adobe® Reader Help.
When you select a document from the search results, that document will open to the page with the
first occurrence of the search word in it. The search word will appear as highlighted text in the
document. Pressing the F3 key will move the cursor to the next occurrence of the search word.

Navigating within documents

Following is a list of basic Adobe® Reader navigation tools to get you started. A complete guide to
using Adobe® Reader is installed with the Adobe® Reader program.
Bookmarks
When you select a document from the MCP Library, the document will open in Adobe® Reader.
As a default, the document will appear in Single Page view with bookmarks.
Bookmarks for the document will be listed on the LEFT SIDE of the screen, and the pages/text of
the document will be listed on the RIGHT SIDE.

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Selecting a bookmark in the left screen will advance the text in the right screen to the specified
chapter or subsection of the open document. For example, if you select the CHAPTER 1
bookmark, you will be taken to the beginning of Chapter 1 of the current document. You will notice
that the first entry in each set of bookmarks is MAIN MENU; clicking on this will return you to the
MCP main menu screen that appears when you first start the MCP.
Links
You will notice as you move through the documents that some of the text appears in RED on your
screen. These red highlighted words are called LINKS—clicking on one of these links with your
mouse will advance the text to whatever item or section of the document the link refers.
Adobe® Reader screen navigation tools
To go to the Next Page: Click the Next Page button at the bottom of the screen
or Press the Right Arrow key
To return to the Previous Page: Click the Previous Page button at the bottom of the screen
or Press the Left Arrow key
To go to the First Page: Click the First Page button at the bottom of the screen
or Press the Home key
To go to the Last Page: Click the Last Page button at the bottom of the screen
or Press the End key
To return to the Previous Screen: Click the Previous View button at the bottom of the screen
or Click the Next View button at the bottom of the screen

Printing documents
To print all or part of a document from the menu bar, select File, Print From the print dialog box,
you can select all pages, the current page, or a specified range of pages to print.
Remember that all documents contained in the MCP CD are copyrighted material of the
American Concrete Institute. The documents may not be printed other than for personal use
without the express consent of the American Concrete Institute. Contact ACI for information on
right-to-reprint if you have any questions.

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Copying and pasting text and graphics

You can select text or a graphic in an open MCP document, copy it to the Clipboard, and paste it
into a document in another application such as a word processor.
Text
To select text, click on the Select Tool and drag the cursor across the desired text. You can
also use your Shift key and the Arrow keys to select text. To select a column of text at a time, hold
down the CTRL key while dragging the mouse. To copy the selected text, use the Edit, Copy pull-
down menu to copy the text to the Clipboard.
Graphics
To copy graphics to the Clipboard, click on the Select Tool .
Drag a rectangle around the graphic to select it. When you release the mouse button, the selected
graphic is highlighted. (To deselect the graphic and start over, click anywhere outside the selected
graphic.) Then choose Edit > Copy to copy the selected graphic to the Clipboard. To view the
graphic, choose Window > Clipboard Viewer.

Technical support
You may reach MCP Technical Support Services between 8:30 am and 5:00 pm ET at:
Phone: (248) 848-3767 Fax: (248) 848-3701 E-mail: support@concrete.org

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