Preserving the formatting of a document on different printers

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Folks:

I need help.

The issue/background:
I am sending out resumes as Word 2002 documents. I am using Trebuchet
MS or Pepetua as the font. They are both TT fonts.

Of course, I am also trying to cram in as much information into the
document ( I need that job...). Hence, the margins, headers and
footers are all formatted to provide me with 3 pages.

The problem:
When I go in for an interview, I notice that the copy with the
interviewer is not formatted the same as mine.

The page breaks do not occur at the same point and many a time the
fonts is different.

What have I done so far?
I have followed the instructions in the MS-Word Help file and under
Save, I have ticked "Embed TT fonts", "Characters in
use only" and "Do
not embed common system fonts".

Under Compatibilty, I have also unchecked the "Use printer
metrics to
layout document"

While this has increased the document size, the purpose is not being
served.

So I go into an interview and have interviewers flipping pages trying
to find what I am talking about. They are not on the same page!!!!

Please help.

Thanks in advance,
 
Hi, Sam,

Unless you can guarantee that the interviewer's computer has the same
printer driver as your computer, the cause is hopeless. Details of the
problem are here:

Why has my page layout changed when I open my document on a different
machine?
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm

The solution is not to send a Word document. Convert it to PDF and
send that. There are a number of free and commercial programs that
will output PDF files, some better than others.
 
G'day Sam <[email protected]>,

Many agencies reformat to their own style sheet. You can usually
request this to not happen. Additionally, maybe consider PDF files are
locked down for font usage.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment)


Sam reckoned:
 
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