Percy Parrot Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 On my (RUBBISH) Vista laptop I am stuck with Microsoft Works Word Processor. A complete pain as it writes .wps docs rather than .doc. So every time I write something that I am going to send to people (like my CV!) I have to convert it to .doc . I just save it as a different file. But then, my CV for examples, jumps from 100kb to 30.1mb!! Why? This means it's too big for gmail to send!!! Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Desperately annoyed Percy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terpin Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Use Open Office - http://www.openoffice.org/ Just as good as Microsoft Office and free! You can also save word documents in .doc format - and do the same with any Microsoft files as you would with Office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Hitler Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Don't know about the size jump. One way to avoid this is to save it as .rtf, which strips out a lot of formatting rubbish, then load this up and (without changing anything) save it as .doc. Or just send the .rtf, everybody can read this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 If your CV has images in that might explain the jump in size, sometimes MS products convert to bitmaps which are large. The best advice already given is to use OpenOffice, it's free and it can save to MS Doc format. You might want to consider sending a CV in pdf format, I do that because agencies are notorious for editing them. I think Open Office can export to pdf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Percy Parrot Posted February 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 If your CV has images in that might explain the jump in size, sometimes MS products convert to bitmaps which are large. The best advice already given is to use OpenOffice, it's free and it can save to MS Doc format. You might want to consider sending a CV in pdf format, I do that because agencies are notorious for editing them. I think Open Office can export to pdf. Thanks for all the advice guys. I think I will try Open Office. I had no idea agencies would or would be allowed to edit your CV! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Team In Keynsham Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Thanks for all the advice guys. I think I will try Open Office. I had no idea agencies would or would be allowed to edit your CV! In my personal experience recruitment consultants treat facts with the same casual indifference as estate agents: on that basis, I'd be more shocked if they did NOT edit CVs. That aside, another +1 for Open Office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screech Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Another open office user here, why pay for something when there is an alternative for free. Don't give Microsoft World Domination another penny. Come on over to linux to for that matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.