DOES ANY VERSION 2000 OR BEYOND CONVERT TO TEXT

[3008n1]

Hello. I am trying to cut and paste a resume to a job site. When I cut and paste from a Word 2000.doc document, everything changes once it is pasted.

QUESTION: Does office xx convert to a TEXT ONLY PRINTABLE CHARACTER W/O TABS???

This would be the purist way (I guess) to do this.

Second. How do you guys do this. Can a document be cut and pasted to a internet window, and retain the formatting??? Can a program that can do this???

Thanks,

Tom

 

[macropod]

Hi Tom,

How things can be pasted onto someone's web site is entirely under their control. While it's possible for the site to be coded to retain character formatting and, perhaps, even the layout of whatever you paste, none of that is under your control.

Equally you're unlikely to find any software to give you that level of control. Think about it - how would you feel if someone else could control the formatting of material pasted onto your website.

Even here, if you paste something in from Word, you lose all formatting. If you want something special, you have to apply the appropriate tags.

Cheers

 

[blue13x]

I guess a trick around this could be to paste it into microsoft front page first, then go to the HTML page and you will have all of the website code in there, although again this would depend on the website you were trying to paste it into and the nature of the formatting.

 

[3008n1]

Hi. Thanks for your replys. I was getting the idea, but just can't see how companies can find it usefull to "mung" a formatted resume--on paper it looks fine.

I later discovered it was a a recruiting company that had the link to the job page. They probably use a word sniffer to look for thoes "action" verbs and such. If thisd is true, formatting would not matter. The resume is assigned a number 8.5, and that is who I am.... Oh well.

Thanks for your time,

Tom