Sigh

[cjsmith]

My resume scrapes. It sucks dead camel dick through a helictite. I am deeply sick of looking at it.

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[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

thanks. This, Too, Shall Pass...

[thedward.livejournal.com]

Wanna trade?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Is yours bad too? Wanna commiserate?

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Need some help re-writing it?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Writing no, formatting quite possibly! I am Word-ifying it, Diety help me. I finally figured out how to have ONE line with TWO pieces of information, one left justified and the other right justified. This. Should. Not. Be. Difficult.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

Is that even possible with word? I ended up using text boxes the one time I needed to

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

See this comment by someone much more savvy than I.

If you glance at my reply, I should note that I was too ashamed to admit that I tried tables as well as trying columns.

[new-iconoclast.livejournal.com]

Huh?

Left-justify the line, add a right-justify tab where you want the far end to be, tab between the two comments.

Piece of cake - but I am unencumbered by experience with a rational word-processor, assuming there is any such thing! :) Been using Word since I first bellied up to the keyboard.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I hit upon that solution after more than an hour of attempting to make Word do two columns, each with one line of text. Then it took me twenty minutes to find the right way to tell Word about this anti-tab, and another several minutes to get rid of the now-invisible (yes! it took them out, but they were still there!) tabs I had had before.

I still think Word should be able to do two columns, each with one line of text, but I'm no longer trying.

Now I have no idea how to change the margins of the whole document without editing all my anti-tab settings too. Everything seems to be based on inches, rather than on some more generic landmark such as "the right margin".

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[new-iconoclast.livejournal.com]

I still think Word should be able to do two columns, each with one line of text, but I'm no longer trying.

This is not intuitive. Using the format menu, set the doc to two columns. Then, at the place you want the break, Insert>Break..>Column Break.

Believe me, I'm not trying to convert you to Word! Like being Catholic, the only way to explain why you do it is that you grew up that way. But I hope I can at least make your life a little easier.

I settled on a reasonably simple format for my resume to avoid some of the difficulties. Sad comment on Word, I know.

There is a way to change the margin measurement from inches to pica, points, or cm (or leagues and furlongs for all I know). Select Tools>Options..., select the General tab, and at the bottom is a pull-down list to change Measurement Units. If that would help.

If you are viewing the Ruler at the top of your page, the shaded parts are margins. The little slide arrows are indents. Tabs are stuck to, and move with, the margins - NOT the indents. Put your cursor on the edge of the shaded part (I don't know how to show you what I mean) and you'll get the little side-to-side arrow. You can use that to drag your margins. But if you have a tab, say, set five spaces in from the margin, that tab will still be five spaces in from the new margin after you change the margin.

Or, what the hell, you could pour a Coke in the computer and go buy a typewriter. Come to think of it, that would be easier! : )

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Now *that's* bad. Through a helictite even. Woah. I don't even know what that *is* that's so bad.

On the other hand, I used to work for a head-hunter and got quite a bit of experience with resumes & CVs, and even ran my own resume service for a while. Want me to take a look and see what recommendations I can make?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It's a cave formation: a twisty-turny soda straw made of stone. Small and often, I imagine, sharp.

Know how to use Word? I swear, one more session beating that thing into submission and I'm going back to PostScript.

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Ah! It *sounded* like a cave thingy (sounds like stalictite). Cool word. I'll have to use it in Literati next time I play ;)

Yeah, you can forward me a word document if ya want, to either my auc or my yahoo account. I'd be glad to give it a look-see.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

((HUGS)). Want me to take a look at it? You can take a look at mine if it will help?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I may just have to figure out how to use Word. This bites. I hate hate hate Microsoft Word.

[gs.livejournal.com]

The use of 'Word' in that last sentence seems to me redundant.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I guess the camel would have to be dead first, eh? There being some things even a camel wouldn't do.

I'd recommend you take up the offers from your friends who understand the art of the resume'. It can't hurt, and might help considerably.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Even camels have some taste, and any self-respecting camel wouldn't go near this thing.

I have some local people helping with wording, but for formatting, gah! It's abysmal. Things are all over the @#$!ing page. Blech.