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Hello all,
My name is Nick, and I'm an undergraduate electrical engineering student currently at an engineering internship. For our final presentation, we need to use LaTeX, and so far, it's been pretty neat, although quite aggravating at times.

I'm pretty new to LaTeX, and I'm having a lot of trouble importing a picture into my document. I used the following code:

\usepackage{float}
\begin{figure}{h}
\centering
\noindent\includegraphics[width=5in]{Figures/BLDCExplained.pdf}
\end{figure}

When I compile it, I get an error that says that I ...

I just figured out the problem today. I had installed LaTeX on my system last week, but apparently, before LaTeX could be installed, I was supposed to have some CTex software also. My office mate let me download his software on a flashdrive, and now the program works, so that's quite a relief ...

I'm trying to use LaTeX for the first time to write a report for my internship, but I keep getting an error every time I try to compile it.

Command Line: texify.exe --pdf "C:\NicholasDataTransfer\MyDocuments\MyDocuments2\PSUREU\LaTeXforREUhelpfile.tex"
Startup Folder: C:\NicholasDataTransfer ...