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MS Word 2002 - locking format
How can I 'lock' the formating of a document in Word? Someone created a
resume for me .. it was two pages long. But when I opened the doc on my PC, the doc now runs onto three pages. This causes issues with headers, footers, etc. I need to be able to format my resume (or any doc) on my PC, then have confidence that if I send it out to someone else, they will view it exactly as I have created it. Is there any way I can lock the format of a doc in Word? |
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MS Word 2002 - locking format
jtm1211 wrote:
How can I 'lock' the formating of a document in Word? Someone created a resume for me .. it was two pages long. But when I opened the doc on my PC, the doc now runs onto three pages. This causes issues with headers, footers, etc. I need to be able to format my resume (or any doc) on my PC, then have confidence that if I send it out to someone else, they will view it exactly as I have created it. Is there any way I can lock the format of a doc in Word? No, there is not -- the reason is explained at http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm. The solution is not to send a Word document at all. Format the resume as you want, and then use one of the free Word-to-PDF converters such as CutePDF or PDF995 (ask the Internet search engine of your choice about "Word to PDF") to make a PDF file from it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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