needhelp said:
I have 8 different resumes stored in different websites, folders, etc.
Monster, Careerbuilder and so on. Can I cut and paste from each one to
a central file/folder so that I can pick/chose different
sentences/paragraph to make a new document instead of typing a
completly new document each time. Sometimes the bullets will move,
sometimes not. Sentences are wrapped into each other or are jumbled.
The drag and drop routine does not work consistently. I lose stuff
sometimes, but that maybe due to putting several things on the
clipboard at one time; but I am pretty careful with that now.
OK, I see your problem. The issue is that when you are copying data from
your resume from a webpage, it is in html. When you are using MS Word
(or an equivalent word processor), it is in a different proprietary
format. This isn't an issue of "all the applications work on Windows",
but rather that you are trying to move data created in one format to
another format and are seeing anomalies. This is normal and has nothing
to do with the standard copy-paste action, which works just fine.
You should create a master document in something more portable, perhaps
an html page created in something like Mozilla Composer. I'm assuming
you aren't able to hand-code html. Or you should create your master
document in a more portable format, like Rich Text Format (.rtf) that
you get by using Wordpad. Plain text transfers best, but does not
support any fancy formatting (bold, italics, etc.). You might
experiment with a .pdf file, normally created in something like Adobe
(*not* the free Adobe Reader, mind you) or OpenOffice. You'll have to
check the sites where you want to post your resume to see what their
requirements are, too.
HTH,
Malke
