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job hunter said:
I am using Windows XP. When trying to email my resume to
potential
employers, they all email back saying I have to send my resume
using
Microsoft Word. I have my resume in Microsoft Works Word
Processor.
I have also tried creating it in Word Pad but this distorts all
the
wording.
Neither Works nor WordPad is Word. These are three different
programs.
I am not the greatest with computers. Can anyone please
tell me how to get my resume into Microsoft Word? Found an
excellent
job posting but they said they cannot accept resumes by regular
mail
nor fax, MUST be emailed in microsoft word. PLEASE HELP
First of all, what they mean is that they want the resume in
Microsoft Word *format*. That's a file formatted in a particular
way, and with the extension .doc.
You can produce such a file using many different programs. The
most obvious of those programs is Microsoft Word. So you can go
to your local software store, or one on the internet, and buy a
copy of Microsoft Word (or Microsoft Office, which contains
Word).
If you're looking to do this as cheaply as possible, there are
several other possibilities:
1. You could buy an older version of Word or Office at a place
like eBay. That would still produce .doc files that they can
read.
2. You can buy the current version of Microsoft Works *Suite*
That includes Word, and it's the cheapest way to get a copy of
the current version.
3. You can use a program like WordPerfect. Although a .doc file
is not WordPerfect's native format, it can produce such files.
4. You can download and use the free OpenOffice or the
inexpensive PerfectOffice. These contain "imitation" Word
programs, which may not have all the features of Word itself, but
may have enough of them to do whatever you need to do. They also
produce .doc files.
5. If you just want to have this single document to send out, you
might want to consider asking a friend who owns Word to do it for
you. He could then put the file on a diskette or CD for you or
E-mail it to you, and you would then have it to E-mail whenever
you needed to.