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MS Word Clean-up as a career?
I'm in the process of trying to hire a new secretary. The door opener is to
send me a resume in Word format. It lets me decide who I don't want to interview very quickly. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote in message ... I have seen some of the UGLIEST ways to format documents because I always keep the non-printing characters turned on. I swear that most people don't know how to properly center a heading! And you are right when you say that the people who don't see the NPCs don't appreciate having the work done correctly. They only care about the paper copy. And sometimes it seems that they really don't look too closely at that. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... FWIW, I can tell you that this ability is not appreciated. As long as a document looks good when printed out, users don't care what the actual file looks like. It's obvious to me that most users do not operate with nonprinting characters displayed. If they did, surely they would be embarrassed by the number of empty paragraphs, extra spaces and tabs, etc. No doubt that's why it's so traumatic to most users when they accidentally do turn on display of NPC. I can spend hours cleaning up a manuscript and applying styles (which, incidentally, will significantly reduce the file size), but, because it does not look appreciably different when printed out, the client does not value the effort. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Beth Brooks" wrote in message ... Hi! It seems that no matter where I work, I always end up as the onsite MS Word expert, especially when it comes to cleaningup Word files that have been created/modified by author's with very little knowledge of how Word usually works. I'm also being asked to create templates and forms, both of which tasks are helping me to learn even more. I don't claim to be anywhere near the MVP level but I aspire to it! I was wondering whether there is anyone out there who makes a living cleaning up other people's MS Word messes and whether you might have any advice for me on how to turn that skill into a career. Thanks! Beth |
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