Word 2000 Document format changes from one PC to another PC

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Tony - 25 Feb 2004 21:30 GMT

Greetings!

I have a question pertaining to a Word 2000 document changing format
from one pc to another, both running Word 2000.

My wife created her resume in Word 2000 and formats it to fit nicely
on two pages. She saves it and emails it to me at work. I open it
and the formatting is all messed up. Specifically the tabs, spacing,
and indentation. It now fits on two and a half pages. I fix it and
send it back and it look horrible to her. Again, we are both using
Word 2000. This is really bad when you are sending a resume to an
employer. What's the fix? How do you know that they will see what
you see?

TIA,
Tony

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Charles Kenyon - 25 Feb 2004 22:37 GMT

You've seen one very good reason for not sending a resume in Word format to
an employer. There are others.

Convert it to a .pdf file if you can. If you can't, print it out and then
scan it back into an image file like .jpg.

To have it appear the same on both of your machines, you both have to be
using the same printer driver. Generally this means the same operating
system (exactly the same). You don't have to actually have the printer
there, just have the printer installed on the computer and have it be the
default printer when you start word. Word formats documents to fit on the
printer it thinks will be used.

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> Tony

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