just a note about exporting from word into rtf format for textedit, it’s not necessary as textedit opens and reads .docx files just fine. I use textedit to read docx files regularly.
> On Dec 15, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there > Another thing you can do is do most of your work on a resume in TextEdit. I > always get a reader to look at a resume, even though I know how to do the > formatting things you mentioned. This is because it just helps to get a good > reader to evaluate the looks of something that important anyway. If you stick > with the Windows computer, you can get Word to save it out in rtf format so > you can read yourself in TextEdit and maybe update it, too, even if you have > to get a reader look over it again once any updates are done later. Just some > thoughts here. > > I do think it would be useful for you to learn Pages some time, but a resume > is usually a hurry up activity, and you want to learn Pages on something less > important. When I learn a program, I always use it for important things and > have a backup to check that I have things right. > > Regards, > Gigi > >> On Dec 14, 2014, at 6:35 PM, Sarai Bucciarelli <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> So what can I do? I’m having a sighted person help me make a resume on a >> Windows machine. I couldn’t figure how to do formatting on Pages such as >> bulets, and spacing. >>> On Dec 14, 2014, at 6:08 AM, Anne Robertson <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Sarai, >>> >>> Most formatting is preserved between Word and Pages. However, text in >>> shapes, ligatures, some tab settings, linked text boxes, vertical text, >>> stylised bullets, SmartArt graphics, some charts, paragraph borders, page >>> colour and watermark as well as macros, OLI objects and themes are not >>> supported on import to Pages, and this is according to Apple. >>> <www.apple.com/mac/pages/compatibility/ >>> <http://www.apple.com/mac/pages/compatibility/>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Anne >>> >>> >>>> On 14 Dec 2014, at 00:28, Sarai Bucciarelli <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello: >>>> I’m having issues with formatting and Pages. A friend sent me a Docx file >>>> with a lot of formatting. I opened in Pages, corrected, saved as Word >>>> format. None of the formatting stayed the same. All the spacing is gone. >>>> How can we preserve document formatting? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
