I tried that already, and it won’t let me delete the big paragraph symbol. What am I doing wrong?
Because I need a job, and I don’t want a blank page to keep me from the career of my dreams.
And the red and green squiggly lines? Word doesn’t always have the right answer, you know. It likes to make all sorts of not-so-helpful suggestions for your grammar, and it doesn’t recognize words that aren’t included in its dictionary. So if you’re applying for a job in a field with very specialized vocabulary, there’s a good chance that you’ll get a resume full of squiggly lines.
If they annoy you that much, turn off that feature when you’re reading resumes. I’m sure you can find the glaring mistakes on your own, anyway.
Whether or not Microsoft word prints an extra blank page because of a bug, and despite the fact that you can (or cannot) suppress it, what kind of nitwit would print out their resu…CV, see a blank page, * and then fold it up and stuff it into the envelope?*
I may never understand the closed-captioning thing. For scripted programs, isn’t there, well, a script? Can’t the people making the big bucks writing the captioning go off of that?
We were watching the episode of Seinfeld where Kramer spills hot coffee on himself (“The Maestro”). He uses a balm (as in salve). The captioning read, “Who told you to use the bomb? Did I tell you to use the bomb? Why did you use the bomb?”
That big paragraph symbol is where Word stores all the formatting information for the document. You can’t delete it. Damned poor design on the part of the MS programmer who made that decision, but we’re stuck with it now.
What you can do is something the folks on the Word-PC list refer to as a Maggie. To wit, you create a new, blank document, and then copy everything EXCEPT that last paragraph symbol into it. It won’t always fix all problems, but it will fix a distressingly large number of them. Play with the margins and the vertical size of your headers and footers. Word will get rid of the last blank page if that last paragraph mark can be made to fit on the last text-filled page.
I wouldn’t worry too much. Where I work everything is printed out by personnel to give to the panel members who are conducting the appointment, so no warning squiggles.
Although you see plenty of silly mistakes in resumes it would have to be a pretty poor one to make me stop reading the actual content. I can’t imagine telling an unsuccessful applicant that I culled them because they made a spelling error in their resume.
I usually have sound & closed captioning. I got used to it when I used to watch programs with “creative sound design” or better known as “we’re playing background music, adding foley effects, and having the actors whisper - isn’t that cool?”
It ends up being like subtitles, I don’t really notice it. Unless it’s really bad (one of my favorites was Sports Night where someone wrote a “pearl script” to run as a background process.)
Word’s grammar check sucks. Spelling, I leave on, but the grammar check is just annoying and usually wrong.
I knew a woman who kept trying to get a job as a legal secretary. Only problem was, in a single sentence complaining about why nobody would hire her, she used “there,” “their,” and “they’re” – and spelled them all as “there.” :wally
It depends on the job you’re applying for. If someone can’t spell on their resume and their job requires them to spell, or at least know how to run spell check, why shouldn’t you cull them for failing up front to meet the job requirements?
Now, see, when I’m reading resumes, I find it so tedious that having spelling and content errors to mock is one of the high points of the effort. And usually we get so many resumes to weed through for one engineering or chemist position that we’re looking for any excuse to weed them down to a manageable number.
Although I was sorely tempted to see if we could interview the person who listed only Disneyworld and Hardee’s as her “10 years of experience in the chemical industry”…
I’ve also had success by selecting that last paragraph marker, and reducing its font size to 1 or so.
Depends whether the prospective employer says you can. Please, people, follow the instructions written in the advertisement or posting. If someone can’t follow the directions posted, I have doubts about whether they can do the job.
C’mon people, you guys don’t honestly think that Word’s non-recognition of names and passive voice and the like are considered true errors. When the job you are applying for requires very detail-oriented work, yes, a single obvious spelling error can screw you when five other people managed not to have any errors. My job requires obsessive attention to detail, from checking data entry and all subsequent calculations and related conclusions to grammar, spelling and formatting as well as conformance to all applicable protocols, rules and regulations. I need to find someone who is capable of doing that. If you can’t even do this with your resume, then yes, your resume ends up in the circular file, if you get my meaning.
closes eyes, holds breath, presses Reply and prays that Gaudere is asleep
