[ale] AbiWord's M$ Word compatibility

[Tyler Kiley]

Heh.... cool.  Personally, I wouldn't even look at a recruiter who won't take 
an xhtml resume, but hey......

Tyler

On Monday 29 April 2002 11:54 am, Fulton Green wrote:
> Since most recruiters these days won't even look at a re'sume' that's not
> in a Microsoft Word document format, I took the time over the weekend to
> convert my re'sume' from XHTML. Actually, what I did was copy all the
> re'sume' content from Galeon, paste into AbiWord, do some minor
> reformatting and save as a Word (.DOC) file. As it turns out, the AbiWord
> .DOC is just an RTF with an additional default language spec at the top.
>
> Anyway, an acquaintance just opened up the resulting file in Word, and it
> apparently read just fine.
>
> Just a little tip for those of you looking to avoid the "M$ Office tax".
>
> ---
> This message has been sent through the ALE general discussion list.
> See http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml for more info. Problems should
> be sent to listmaster at ale dot org.


---
This message has been sent through the ALE general discussion list.
See http://www.ale.org/mailing-lists.shtml for more info. Problems should be
sent to listmaster at ale dot org.