Open Office and MS Word

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I wrote a cv in open office for my brother. He wants to email it to potential employers and i can email it to them but im wondering if they will ba able to open open office documents with all the formatting. I tryed saving it as ms word but it lost the table formatting.

So is there anything i can do to get it converted to ms word with full compatability so it looks like how it was originally wrote? Or will ms office be able to open them ok with full formatting?
 
It always warns you in open office that if you were to save it in a MS office way, - you'd lose some of the formatting - and this is sometimes true unfortunetely :(

The two formats aren't perfectly interchangeable. The two aren't even compatible with MS Office latest 2007 version either.
 
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Hmm bummer, i guess theres no chance they would be using open office :p Or willing to download it for the cv :p

Hmm guess he will have to either mail it in paper form or ill have to get office and import it in and rewrite the messed up stuff grr.
 
Sending around office document formats in such a case is silly, whether it's Open Document, or one of the myriad MS Office formats. Export the CV as a .pdf and all will be rosy.
 
Yeap do that - If I want to email a text document with formatting and stuff - then I always save it as ms office 2003 at least. Otherwise I like to use open office - it's a real pity that they aren't perfectly interchangeable though isn't it?
 
I like the idea of the PDF way. Its widly used format so companys should be using it as standard. I did export it to PDF to see how it looked and it did look good with all correct formating as well.

Do you think CV's will be accepted ok as PDF format?
 
I am in the process of recruiting for a number of data processors and am sick to death of people sending me CV's in formats I cant open. Bloody microsoft office docx seems to be the worst one. I must admit I have been most impressed by the ones who sent me it in a pdf format. I also like the idea of PDF format as it means people can't monkey around with your CV and either nick bits for theirs or delete portions of it by accident (as I did today for some chap whos address I deleted from within the formated box it was displayed in. Luckily I spotted it and pressed the undo button).

PDF for the win

One guy even sent a link in his email to the Adobe website incase I needed to download the viewer.
 
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I am in the process of recruiting for a number of data processors and am sick to death of people sending me CV's in formats I cant open. Bloody microsoft office docx seems to be the worst one. I must admit I have been most impressed by the ones who sent me it in a pdf format. I also like the idea of PDF format as it means people can't monkey around with your CV and either nick bits for theirs or delete portions of it by accident (as I did today for some chap whos address I deleted from within the formated box it was displayed in. Luckily I spotted it and pressed the undo button).

PDF for the win

One guy even sent a link in his email to the Adobe website incase I needed to download the viewer.
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Don't hire him. He should have linked to Foxit.
 
prescott28 said:
Hey, hang on, OpeenOffice can write .pdf natively - like Office 2007 should but you have to download an add on to make it work!
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No he provided a PDF file with a little line at the bottom saying something like.

" I have provided my CV in the PDF format which should open on your computer. If however you are unable to read the file clicking the following link will install the free PDF viewer. If another format is required please contact me with your requirements".

I paraphrase but it was something like that.

I am also aware that other readers may be more 733t but the adobe one is the one that most sys admins will allow.

I often use the PDF function in open office it works really well.
 
I would imagine a lot of job agencys wouldnt like it being sent in PDF as they chop and change CVs around a lot and send them to the client with their logo on etc

just thinking of it.. it sounds like a good idea as i find it annoying when a agency messes with your CV
 
FishThrower said:
I would imagine a lot of job agencys wouldnt like it being sent in PDF as they chop and change CVs around a lot and send them to the client with their logo on etc

just thinking of it.. it sounds like a good idea as i find it annoying when a agency messes with your CV
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Yeah. If I spend hours making a CV I don't particularly want some jobsworth ruining it with 5 minutes of their time.
 
FishThrower said:
I would imagine a lot of job agencys wouldnt like it being sent in PDF as they chop and change CVs around a lot and send them to the client with their logo on etc

just thinking of it.. it sounds like a good idea as i find it annoying when a agency messes with your CV
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As I used to be a recruitment consultant I can fully agree with this as often it is hand to cut and paste details to one of your standard formated CVs but if i needed to do this I would always ask first.
 
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