I think this is not true.  Agencies can request the form of the
attachment for their applications. Submitters must read agency
instructions.   This is not even true for NIH which does want all
text files as .pdf but sub-award budgets must be in .xfd format.

Bob
xxxxxx@umich.edu

On Jan 25, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Elsa Nadler wrote:

All SF 424 electronic attachments must be PDF files.

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