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Originally Posted by Stefan Blom
This is also being discussed in the old Word newsgroups. Basically, Word always depends on the printer driver when it lays out documents, and different operating systems make use of different drivers. Creating a PDF would be the easiest approach.
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Creating a PDF has it's merits, but at the moment we are in the editing mode. My daughter and I worked on the resume on my Windows machine and got it to fit on one page. I then emailed it to her for some further editing and that is when we found that the Mac split it into 2 pages.
Since she will be emailing it out and posting it on application websites, she will need to scale it down to fit on one page before creating the PDF.
Yes, that will ensure that the document will display/print on one page for all recipients, but it will also be uneditable. If she sends the original Word document back to me for review/editing, I might be able to get it to fit on one page, but she might have to scale it again to get it back to one page before creating the PDF. For example, one version fit on one page on my Windows machine. She scaled it down to 96% to fit on one page on her Mac and emailed it back to me. I opened it up on a different Windows machine and I can fit 4 more lines on one page. If I send that back to her, she'll need to scale it down even further.
She is a college senior applying for grad schools and assitantships. The resume evolves as she completes internships and other activities so I think we may be in editing mode for a while. It just a pain to have it appear differently as we pass it back and forth.
Thanks!