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[Guest]

I have vista home premium and an hp pavillion. I scanned my resume into my
documents. made a folder. now, cannot get it to post anywhere. ctrl a, ctrl
c, ctrl v, all i get is a teeny weenie odd looking icon on the websites
window for posting. I sent it to my daughters computer as an e-mail, she told
me it is unreadable all symbols and squiggles.I am not very computer
savvy,but I find word a very complicated program to use out of the box. I
have been told by others "oh,you just attach it!! HOW?! easier said than
done.any suggestions would be appreciated .

 

[Guest]

You don't say which email program that you use, which is very important. It
is either Windows Mail or Outlook if you have Office installed, or do you
just have Word installed.

Open up your resume that you have saved in Documents. It should open in a
Word document.
Under "file, edit, view, etc" at the left-hand top of the window, there will
be an icon in the form of an envelope; that is the link to your email
program.
Click on it, and a window from your email program should pop up with your
resume attached. Complete your email as you would normally do, then send it.

The other way is to open your email program and click on compose, new, you
know what I mean. Then click on "attach" browse t where your resume is
stored, double clicking on a folder if it is inside a folder , and follow the
prompts.

Yo say that it is unreadable at your daughter's end. She will need Word
installed on HER computer, or a FREE downloadable Word Viewer from Microsoft,
to read your resume as it is written in a specific program

 

[Guest]

i have word and word works and office. as far as e-mail. i use msn. my
problem with my resume is posting it somewhere else other than in an e-mail.
i just made a discovery last night is though, i have an hp all in one and I
scanned my resume into my computr. now i looked and my resume is stored as a
jpeg. the new computers don't have floppy drives so i thought scanning it in
would be just as good. it is treated as a jpeg image. even as a jpeg i should
be able to move it from word. I need to be able to post it into an already
established window on emplyment sites. there is no e-mail just paste here and
submit,I can highlight it copy it but when i go to the window and hit
paste-nothing, just some teenie unreadable litle icon of some sort. i will
try to re-type the resume instead of scan,but a real pita,i have it on floppy
but no floppy drive. as far as e-mailgoes my address is msn.com,what would i
be outlook.com??(never used it before)

 

[Guest]

Outlook is the name of an email program, nothing to do with .com
Most employment sites give you the opportunity to upload your resume to
their site, not copy and paste.
Is there anywhere at their website that says that you can UPLOAD your resume?
If there is, use it to find your resume in your documents, click OK, and it
will be uploaded.

 

[Chuck [MVP]]

"Mick Murphy" wrote:

i have word and word works and office. as far as e-mail. i use msn. my
problem with my resume is posting it somewhere else other than in an e-mail.
i just made a discovery last night is though, i have an hp all in one and I
scanned my resume into my computr. now i looked and my resume is stored as a
jpeg. the new computers don't have floppy drives so i thought scanning it in
would be just as good. it is treated as a jpeg image. even as a jpeg i should
be able to move it from word. I need to be able to post it into an already
established window on emplyment sites. there is no e-mail just paste here and
submit,I can highlight it copy it but when i go to the window and hit
paste-nothing, just some teenie unreadable litle icon of some sort. i will
try to re-type the resume instead of scan,but a real pita,i have it on floppy
but no floppy drive. as far as e-mailgoes my address is msn.com,what would i
be outlook.com??(never used it before)

The .jpeg issue might be the relevant detail. When you copy your resume into
most employment web sites, they are generally looking for text - no fancy
formatting (aka MS Word), and no images (aka .jpeg files).

You need to start by scanning your resume using OCR or a similar process, so the
scanned copy gets converted to text. Anything other than text will be a problem
in employment web sites. And after you do the scan, go over the scanned text
word by word, and make sure that it's accurate.

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Cheers,
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http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
My email is AT DOT
actual address pchuck mvps org.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 07:50:04 -0700, tcseacliff69

i have word and word works and office. as far as e-mail. i use msn. my
problem with my resume is posting it somewhere else other than in an e-mail.

If you are posting it to unknown recipients, then it is presumptuous
to assume they use MS Office. SaveAs RTF and send that.

i just made a discovery last night is though, i have an hp all in one and I
scanned my resume into my computr. now i looked and my resume is stored as a
jpeg. the new computers don't have floppy drives so i thought scanning it in
would be just as good. it is treated as a jpeg image.

Of course. Scanning creates a picture of text, not text. OCR will
attempt to translate that picture back into text, but will prolly mess
up. What you are doing is like recoding a CD by holding a microphone
in front of the speaker while you play it back.

even as a jpeg i should be able to move it from word.

If I recived a CV as a JPEG, or (worse!) a Word .DOC with no text but
a JPEG embedded in it, it would go straightr to trash. I'd consider
the sender to be unemployable in any context involving PCs.

established window on emplyment sites. there is no e-mail just paste here

Then you need to highlight text *within* the file, and copy and paste
that. If you try to paste the file itself (e.g. from My Computer)
then you will end up with a mess. Fortunately, it won't work, i.e.
you will not succeed in unwittingly sending attachments to the site.

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