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I downloaded Foxit PhantonPDF Standard and ran Form Field Recognition and it did a fabulous job making the organizer fillable! Each organizer will have to be opened and converted separately, but I can have an intern type do this. A big organizer took about 20 seconds and a small one took less than 1 seconds to convert.

Probably. For an entity to be granted 501(c)(3) status it must be a corporation or sometimes a trust or association. If the entity was never legally formed, I would think the 501(c)(3) was granted under fraudulent precepts. The problems might be deeper than just removing the status. Part II of Form 1023 deals with the organizational structure. Under each of the iterated entity forms, the applicant is instructed to attach the underlying document(s) showing the formation of the entity. The signature for Form 1023 has the usual "under penalties of perjury" dialog. If the entity was never incorporated, the applicant either submitted an incomplete form or submitted bogus paperwork. Either way, it might be time to enlist the aid of an attorney.

The checkboxes aren't checkboxes so you can't just click it to answer yes or no, and the font sizes for some fields is a bit small but zoom makes it usable.

And it makes sense that they would want some continuity between different devices using their windows OS given the move toward tablets and smart phones among the general public. My complaint was that the execution was poor in Windows 8. I never minded the full-screen start menu, although not having a visible button to activate it in 8.0 was a mistake they shouldn't have had to correct in 8.1. I use my windows key on my keyboard, but the Start Button is a convention that has been ingrained in people since Windows 95. Leaving it out of 8.0 was dumb. What did bother me was that running Modern UI apps transported you to Metro-land, and left you feeling kind of stranded once you got there. Microsoft did a bad job of integrating the Modern UI stuff with everything else. And by default, some metro apps were associated with common tasks like picture viewing... so you're sitting at your familiar desktop, you attempt to open a JPG file, and you're booted to a full-screen environment tailored for tablet use. Try to listen to music, and you're sent to XBOX Music or whatever it's called, instead of Windows Media Player. Of course you can change the default applications back to their Windows 7 defaults, but it's something you have to frig with... and something a novice user might not understand. Anyway, once you correct those things, it's fine. It's not like Vista where driver compatibility was terrible and performance was just as bad. The core of the OS is fast, stable, and solid. Windows 10 allowing you to run Modern UI apps in a window on the desktop is a significant step in the right direction.

And, at some point, that new printer, scanner, mouse or keyboard you want won't even have drivers for win7.

I can't imagine buying a new system with W7. It may be supported until 2020 so buying today may be ok. But what about next year and the next? What about buying when there's only one more year left of W7 support? By then, maybe W11 or W12 will be out. Will you be afraid of the latest os? Or will you be confident enough by then to go with W8? I think this will go on and on. I've always liked to buy the latest, use it as long as I could, then buy new with the latest. I was fortunate enough not to have to buy new when Vista came out and could continue using my xp until W7 came out. I may have bought Vista, may have gotten burned or not. I don't know. But W8 has been out almost 3 years. Get the latest and learn the new interface.

I assume you're talking about the so-called 'Metro' or modern UI. You don't have to use that. I don't. There only a handful of esoteric things in PC Settings that are not in Control Panel. Most people missed having a familiar menu, but I was never fond of the menu, so I just learned to live without it. I use icons on the Desktop, Taskbar and Quick Launch Toolbar. MS keeps trying to kill the Quick Launch Toolbar. They even lied in the help pages saying it was no longer a part of windows, but it's always been there in the background. I have 28 icons in my Quick Launch Toolbar, 100s on my Desktop and my 7 most used programs pinned to my taskbar that I activate with WinKey+1 thru 7. 8 did fix 7's clunky UI for File Explorer and brought a host of other refinements to windows. It's much easier to add peripherals in 8 than ever before. In fact it's automatic in some cases.

It's not an unsafe choice as far as driver and software compatibility goes. Like I said, under the hood, the guts are all essentially the same as Vista, with gradual refinement and optimization with 7, 8, 8.1, and now 10. As the above video states, they've made it faster and more lean to bring down the hardware requirements. The interface is a different story. 8 brought huge sweeping changes, with gradual refinement in 8.1 and 10. These changes didn't degrade software compatibility or the stability of the operating system, but they did upset a lot of people. For a new computer, I think the decision comes down to how comfortable you will be with the changes to the interface. If you're one to embrace change and enjoy poking around a new system to see what's new, then go for it. If what you see in the video gives you hives, then stick with 7 for as long as you can.