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I am emailing my resume to alot of people online looking for employment. I
was wondering if my formatting, i.e., bulleted lists, numbering, etc., would be all outta whack if I emailed my document so I emailed the resume to myself to check it out. It was ALL messed up, the bulleted lists were all uneven, the numbered lists were messed up and everything. This could be a disaster for my sending my resume to a potential employer. Does anyone know how I can be assured that the formatting within my document will remain "as is" without changing when emailed? I don't really understand why it is messing up to begin with? Thanks for any replies, this is very important, I need a job, like "yesterday". Joy |
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Convert the document to .pdf and sent that as an attachment.
-- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "URmySunshine" wrote in message ... I am emailing my resume to alot of people online looking for employment. I was wondering if my formatting, i.e., bulleted lists, numbering, etc., would be all outta whack if I emailed my document so I emailed the resume to myself to check it out. It was ALL messed up, the bulleted lists were all uneven, the numbered lists were messed up and everything. This could be a disaster for my sending my resume to a potential employer. Does anyone know how I can be assured that the formatting within my document will remain "as is" without changing when emailed? I don't really understand why it is messing up to begin with? Thanks for any replies, this is very important, I need a job, like "yesterday". Joy |
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Create a text only version of your resume.
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "URmySunshine" wrote in message ... I am emailing my resume to alot of people online looking for employment. I was wondering if my formatting, i.e., bulleted lists, numbering, etc., would be all outta whack if I emailed my document so I emailed the resume to myself to check it out. It was ALL messed up, the bulleted lists were all uneven, the numbered lists were messed up and everything. This could be a disaster for my sending my resume to a potential employer. Does anyone know how I can be assured that the formatting within my document will remain "as is" without changing when emailed? I don't really understand why it is messing up to begin with? Thanks for any replies, this is very important, I need a job, like "yesterday". Joy |
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Thanks Doug, If the person I'm sending the resume to requests that it only be
sent as a doc. file can I still do the pdf and send it as an attachment? I just figured out that doc. files mean that they need to be in Word 97-2003 format. My resume is done with Word 2007 and is a docx. file. That is right isn't it? I'm really not sure that what I just figured out is even right !!!!! I tried the other request by sending it as plain text but it looked horrid, there were umpteen spaces in between paragraphs and other things and I definitely don't want it looking like that. I'm about to the point of just re-doing my whole resume and leave out the bulleted lists and all of the formatting altogether but it does look so good as is and I've had alot of compliments on it. Hope to hear back soon. Thanks much, Joy "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Convert the document to .pdf and sent that as an attachment. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "URmySunshine" wrote in message ... I am emailing my resume to alot of people online looking for employment. I was wondering if my formatting, i.e., bulleted lists, numbering, etc., would be all outta whack if I emailed my document so I emailed the resume to myself to check it out. It was ALL messed up, the bulleted lists were all uneven, the numbered lists were messed up and everything. This could be a disaster for my sending my resume to a potential employer. Does anyone know how I can be assured that the formatting within my document will remain "as is" without changing when emailed? I don't really understand why it is messing up to begin with? Thanks for any replies, this is very important, I need a job, like "yesterday". Joy |
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"Hi Joann,
I did send myself a copy as a plain text version and it looked really "screwy". I have titles and headings in the resume such as 'Office Skills' and under that is a bulleted list of those skills. Well, between my title and the bulleted list, there were about 27 spaces?? Couldn't figure that one out cause it doesn't look like that when in Word 2007 or in Print Preview or any other way?? In sending it in plain text, I suppose I would just have to go in and delete all the spacing and clean it up to look the way it should huh? As I told Doug, I'm about ready to just re-do the whole thing but I've had so many compliments on this resume when I've had to use it. I used the same format about 6 years ago when I moved and was needing a new job at that time, now I've moved again and need same. Thanks for your help. (I'm NEVER moving again, I finally made it to the BEACH !!!) Joy "JoAnn Paules" wrote: Create a text only version of your resume. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "URmySunshine" wrote in message ... I am emailing my resume to alot of people online looking for employment. I was wondering if my formatting, i.e., bulleted lists, numbering, etc., would be all outta whack if I emailed my document so I emailed the resume to myself to check it out. It was ALL messed up, the bulleted lists were all uneven, the numbered lists were messed up and everything. This could be a disaster for my sending my resume to a potential employer. Does anyone know how I can be assured that the formatting within my document will remain "as is" without changing when emailed? I don't really understand why it is messing up to begin with? Thanks for any replies, this is very important, I need a job, like "yesterday". Joy |
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What is this below that states " pleae reply to the newsgroup unless you wish
to avail yourself of my services on a paid basis" or something to that effect. Am I in the wrong place to ask a question ??????? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Convert the document to .pdf and sent that as an attachment. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "URmySunshine" wrote in message ... I am emailing my resume to alot of people online looking for employment. I was wondering if my formatting, i.e., bulleted lists, numbering, etc., would be all outta whack if I emailed my document so I emailed the resume to myself to check it out. It was ALL messed up, the bulleted lists were all uneven, the numbered lists were messed up and everything. This could be a disaster for my sending my resume to a potential employer. Does anyone know how I can be assured that the formatting within my document will remain "as is" without changing when emailed? I don't really understand why it is messing up to begin with? Thanks for any replies, this is very important, I need a job, like "yesterday". Joy |
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Yes, you are right. Word 2007 by default saves documents in a docx file. To
make your resume a doc file use Save As and set the Save as type to Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc) . Use your email program to write a cover letter and attach your resume.doc file to the message. Try emailing that message to yourself. || "URmySunshine" wrote: Thanks Doug, If the person I'm sending the resume to requests that it only be sent as a doc. file can I still do the pdf and send it as an attachment? I just figured out that doc. files mean that they need to be in Word 97-2003 format. My resume is done with Word 2007 and is a docx. file. That is right isn't it? I'm really not sure that what I just figured out is even right !!!!! I tried the other request by sending it as plain text but it looked horrid, there were umpteen spaces in between paragraphs and other things and I definitely don't want it looking like that. I'm about to the point of just re-doing my whole resume and leave out the bulleted lists and all of the formatting altogether but it does look so good as is and I've had alot of compliments on it. Hope to hear back soon. Thanks much, Joy "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Convert the document to .pdf and sent that as an attachment. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "URmySunshine" wrote in message ... I am emailing my resume to alot of people online looking for employment. I was wondering if my formatting, i.e., bulleted lists, numbering, etc., would be all outta whack if I emailed my document so I emailed the resume to myself to check it out. It was ALL messed up, the bulleted lists were all uneven, the numbered lists were messed up and everything. This could be a disaster for my sending my resume to a potential employer. Does anyone know how I can be assured that the formatting within my document will remain "as is" without changing when emailed? I don't really understand why it is messing up to begin with? Thanks for any replies, this is very important, I need a job, like "yesterday". Joy |
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No, you're posting to the newsgroups as Doug requests. You might be
posting to the WRONG newsgroup (.docmanagement) but that's a different issue. :-) -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "URmySunshine" wrote in message : What is this below that states " pleae reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid basis" or something to that effect. Am I in the wrong place to ask a question ??????? "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Convert the document to .pdf and sent that as an attachment. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "URmySunshine" wrote in message ... I am emailing my resume to alot of people online looking for employment. I was wondering if my formatting, i.e., bulleted lists, numbering, etc., would be all outta whack if I emailed my document so I emailed the resume to myself to check it out. It was ALL messed up, the bulleted lists were all uneven, the numbered lists were messed up and everything. This could be a disaster for my sending my resume to a potential employer. Does anyone know how I can be assured that the formatting within my document will remain "as is" without changing when emailed? I don't really understand why it is messing up to begin with? Thanks for any replies, this is very important, I need a job, like "yesterday". Joy |
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Well, if they insist upon a .DOC file then I guess you need to do a Save
As and save it in Word 97-2003 format. Then check that for formatting. Ultimately it's not easy to guarantee how the formatting is going to look when you send in a format like that - PDF really is the best option usually. Can you ask the recipient if they'll accept a PDF? -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "URmySunshine" wrote in message : Thanks Doug, If the person I'm sending the resume to requests that it only be sent as a doc. file can I still do the pdf and send it as an attachment? I just figured out that doc. files mean that they need to be in Word 97-2003 format. My resume is done with Word 2007 and is a docx. file. That is right isn't it? I'm really not sure that what I just figured out is even right !!!!! I tried the other request by sending it as plain text but it looked horrid, there were umpteen spaces in between paragraphs and other things and I definitely don't want it looking like that. I'm about to the point of just re-doing my whole resume and leave out the bulleted lists and all of the formatting altogether but it does look so good as is and I've had alot of compliments on it. Hope to hear back soon. Thanks much, Joy "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Convert the document to .pdf and sent that as an attachment. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "URmySunshine" wrote in message ... I am emailing my resume to alot of people online looking for employment. I was wondering if my formatting, i.e., bulleted lists, numbering, etc., would be all outta whack if I emailed my document so I emailed the resume to myself to check it out. It was ALL messed up, the bulleted lists were all uneven, the numbered lists were messed up and everything. This could be a disaster for my sending my resume to a potential employer. Does anyone know how I can be assured that the formatting within my document will remain "as is" without changing when emailed? I don't really understand why it is messing up to begin with? Thanks for any replies, this is very important, I need a job, like "yesterday". Joy |
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If the requirement is a .doc file and the job involves use of Word, the
employer may be looking at how the résumé is formatted as an indication of the applicant's Word skills. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote in message ... Well, if they insist upon a .DOC file then I guess you need to do a Save As and save it in Word 97-2003 format. Then check that for formatting. Ultimately it's not easy to guarantee how the formatting is going to look when you send in a format like that - PDF really is the best option usually. Can you ask the recipient if they'll accept a PDF? -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "URmySunshine" wrote in message : Thanks Doug, If the person I'm sending the resume to requests that it only be sent as a doc. file can I still do the pdf and send it as an attachment? I just figured out that doc. files mean that they need to be in Word 97-2003 format. My resume is done with Word 2007 and is a docx. file. That is right isn't it? I'm really not sure that what I just figured out is even right !!!!! I tried the other request by sending it as plain text but it looked horrid, there were umpteen spaces in between paragraphs and other things and I definitely don't want it looking like that. I'm about to the point of just re-doing my whole resume and leave out the bulleted lists and all of the formatting altogether but it does look so good as is and I've had alot of compliments on it. Hope to hear back soon. Thanks much, Joy "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Convert the document to .pdf and sent that as an attachment. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "URmySunshine" wrote in message ... I am emailing my resume to alot of people online looking for employment. I was wondering if my formatting, i.e., bulleted lists, numbering, etc., would be all outta whack if I emailed my document so I emailed the resume to myself to check it out. It was ALL messed up, the bulleted lists were all uneven, the numbered lists were messed up and everything. This could be a disaster for my sending my resume to a potential employer. Does anyone know how I can be assured that the formatting within my document will remain "as is" without changing when emailed? I don't really understand why it is messing up to begin with? Thanks for any replies, this is very important, I need a job, like "yesterday". Joy |
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Good point, I hadn't considered that.
-- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message : If the requirement is a .doc file and the job involves use of Word, the employer may be looking at how the résumé is formatted as an indication of the applicant's Word skills. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote in message ... Well, if they insist upon a .DOC file then I guess you need to do a Save As and save it in Word 97-2003 format. Then check that for formatting. Ultimately it's not easy to guarantee how the formatting is going to look when you send in a format like that - PDF really is the best option usually. Can you ask the recipient if they'll accept a PDF? -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "URmySunshine" wrote in message : Thanks Doug, If the person I'm sending the resume to requests that it only be sent as a doc. file can I still do the pdf and send it as an attachment? I just figured out that doc. files mean that they need to be in Word 97-2003 format. My resume is done with Word 2007 and is a docx. file. That is right isn't it? I'm really not sure that what I just figured out is even right !!!!! I tried the other request by sending it as plain text but it looked horrid, there were umpteen spaces in between paragraphs and other things and I definitely don't want it looking like that. I'm about to the point of just re-doing my whole resume and leave out the bulleted lists and all of the formatting altogether but it does look so good as is and I've had alot of compliments on it. Hope to hear back soon. Thanks much, Joy "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Convert the document to .pdf and sent that as an attachment. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "URmySunshine" wrote in message ... I am emailing my resume to alot of people online looking for employment. I was wondering if my formatting, i.e., bulleted lists, numbering, etc., would be all outta whack if I emailed my document so I emailed the resume to myself to check it out. It was ALL messed up, the bulleted lists were all uneven, the numbered lists were messed up and everything. This could be a disaster for my sending my resume to a potential employer. Does anyone know how I can be assured that the formatting within my document will remain "as is" without changing when emailed? I don't really understand why it is messing up to begin with? Thanks for any replies, this is very important, I need a job, like "yesterday". Joy |
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Hi Doug,
I tried to save the add-in download from Microsoft.com so that I can convert Word documents to PDF format but when I went to save it to my program files, which is pretty much where I put any download, it would not let me save it there, it asked me if I wanted to save it to my name file which I see now is a user account file of my name. I saved it there instead. Okay, so after I saved the download to that user file, I went to run the download and it gave me this error: C:\Users\JoyLorraineDixon\SaveasPDFandXPS.exe is not a valid Win32 application HAS SOMEONE GOT A HOLD OF MY COMPUTER? If I am not logged on as the administrator then how did that change. I log onto my system the same way as always, with my password. So does anyone know what has happened here because you all know that I haven't a clue.... Thanks bunches, Joy "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Convert the document to .pdf and sent that as an attachment. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "URmySunshine" wrote in message ... I am emailing my resume to alot of people online looking for employment. I was wondering if my formatting, i.e., bulleted lists, numbering, etc., would be all outta whack if I emailed my document so I emailed the resume to myself to check it out. It was ALL messed up, the bulleted lists were all uneven, the numbered lists were messed up and everything. This could be a disaster for my sending my resume to a potential employer. Does anyone know how I can be assured that the formatting within my document will remain "as is" without changing when emailed? I don't really understand why it is messing up to begin with? Thanks for any replies, this is very important, I need a job, like "yesterday". Joy |
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