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Microsoft Word margin problems

9 years ago

Hi..I have typed my resume in Microsoft Word. Viewing it on Word, it looks perfectly aligned. The problem is how it looks in my email. I emailed my resume to myself first to be sure it was going to be ok. Of course, it wasn't....there are 2 lines that go all the way to the end of the right hand side of the page in the emailed resume (I have seen it worse than this). Is this how it is going to look when the employer receives it? I do not know how to correct this.

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dadoes
9 years ago
The formatting may change if you are copying/pasting the text of the Word document into an e-mail.

The formatting (theoretically) should not change if you send the Word file as an attachment.

Best procedure is convert/save the Word document as a .pdf and send that as an attachment.
donnas_gw
Original Author
9 years ago
Looking at the drop down box under "Save as type", I don't see .pdf. Is that where I am supposed to be looking? I see XML document, single file webpage, webpage, webpage, filtered, and document template.
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donnas_gw
Original Author
9 years ago
I am not copying and pasting. I am clicking on "file", then "send to" on Microsoft Word where my resume is.
owbist
9 years ago
What version of MS Office are you using?

You should do as Dadoes suggests and attach you resume either as a PDF or a .docx file with the email being the cover letter. That way you are assured it stays just as you set it up.

I am positive that back in Office 2003 I could click to send a .doc file as an email with no issues. But now with Office 2007 the option is not available and it must be attached as .docx - .pdf or .xls.
grubby_AZ Tucson Z9
9 years ago
If you get thoroughly fed up, try this. Various editions of Word have a problem with carriage returns, so to speak, and both Outlook and webmail. Open your document, hit ctrl-H, and replace paragraph marks (^p) with line returns (^l). Now send it to yourself and see if it fixes the formatting. This is not an OS problem, it's Word's.

I do agree, however, that a resume is a document in itself and should be sent as a formatted attachment.
donnas_gw
Original Author
9 years ago
Ok....I sent it as an attachment to myself, and it came up aligned. Thank you all for your help!!

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