On 20/05/11 09:05, Grant Sewell wrote:
On Fri, 20 May 2011 07:10:23 +0100
Sean Miller wrote:

On 20 May 2011 07:00, Paul Morgan-Roach<[email protected]>  wrote:

My advice - open the document if you can.  If it's something that
depends on layout heavily, ask for it as a jpg or pdf.

Actually, it's got significantly better of late...

Presentations should not be a major issue... people should not be
creating layout-critical documents in 'Word' anyway... it's not what
word processors are for....
Shouldn't unfortunately doesn't mean doesn't.  There are still an
absolute tonne of people who prefer to lay stuff out using text boxes
and the like in a word processor than using a more appropriate tool.

Grant.

ok so this happens with my local authority application form if i import the native word dociument in to open office the boxes seem to go off the edge of the page

if word is not appropriate what are they meant to use, pdf is fixed, as in if filling in (pen) i can't add more rows to my job / education history, so end up including at least 5 more bits of paper with this information on. for the most part a word file can be edited, in word of course, there are with tables / boxes and other similar features bits that as i said don't quite work as they should. or don't seem to

so what is the most appropriate format?

oddly a recent job gives me a pdf application form, i can either fill in and send off by post, or fill in and e-mail, only as its pdf it isn't editable unless i am missing something perhaps i should be using adobe pdf suite (or what ever its called) to fill the form in.

the mind boggles sometimes.

paul

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