[geeks] MS good?!?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 07:44:05PM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:

> I just wish the HR denizens were that clued, but they can't even be
> trusted to open thier own mail. I can offer my resume in a *variety* of
> formats from ASCII, to Wordperfect 8, to lyx, LaTeX, postscript, etc. but
> what does everyone ask for? Word. I can spend three hours making my resume
> look *beautiful* and *perfect*, only to import it into Word and have to do
> it all over again. And have it not be as nice...

Besides, off all those formats, word give you the least control over
what your document will look like on the HR computer screen or when
printed on the HR printer.  A number of years ago (five I think) I had
the job of putting together a newletter in MS Publisher, then emailing
it to the printer, and this was a major hassle since things never
looked the same at the printer.  Most particularly, the text paginated 
differently and the ends of articles would get lost.  But graphics
coming out differently was also a problem.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd