Preserving the formatting of a document on different printers

[Sam]

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,

 

[Jay Freedman]

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.

 

[Word Heretic]

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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Sam reckoned: