Microsoft Word question.

[wolfman]

Avoiding my personal opinions of this product for a few minutes.

I am once again in the process of looking for a new job. Since Word is standard these days I polished up my Resume for distribution. It's all purty now, but I ran into a problem. As a tech guy, it's full of acronyms, technologies, and projects that normal people don't use. They have long been added to my personal dictionary, but arn't in the standard one. Pulling up the doc on my friends computer in Word, I realized that every third word is underlined as misspelled. It looks horribly unprofessional and ugly, and is not the kind of impression I want to give a prospective employer giving a cursory glance.

Does anybody know of a way to imbed a customized dictionary with the doc so Word's ever so helpful red lines don't appear?

[mcbiggins]

If you're happy with the layout why not save it as a pdf?

[don't ask]

You can prevent Word from checking specialized text by

Select the text that you don't want to check.
On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Set Language.
In the Mark selected text as box, click (no proofing) at the top of the list.

[Bill H.]

mcbiggins wrote
If you're happy with the layout why not save it as a pdf?
Because then it won't be read by many of the people you're sending it to. Bad idea.

[Caught@Work]

Originally posted by don't ask
You can prevent Word from checking specialized text by

Select the text that you don't want to check.
On the Tools menu, point to Language, and then click Set Language.
In the Mark selected text as box, click (no proofing) at the top of the list.
Isn't this a local setting?
If the guy on the other end doesn't have this set, they would still see the red wigglies, yes?

[don't ask]

No I believe that this is encoded in the document because the spellchecker will notify you that a document contains text set to (no proofing) and tells you how to find it in the document.

[RealityChuck]

"No proofing" is a document setting and travels with the document.

But a PDF is fine, too. If you're going for a technical job, it's unlikely in the extreme that they can't read it. Acrobat Reader is on nearly all computers.

[Keeve]

My guess is that if you're going for a tech job, then the other applicants have such acronyms in their resumes as well. If so, then the person reading them either doesn't care about the squigglies, or has turned them off on his pc as described above. IOW, don't sweat it.

[Terminus Est]

If they can't read a PDF, then that's probably not a place you'd want to be working. Similarly for red squiggles in the Word doc.