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Old 10-31-2013, 10:02 AM
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Guys, I'm rewriting my resume and I saw this nice header format that looks unique and elegant, and at the same time saves me a lot of space. But I'm having a hard time replicating it in Word.

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To be precise, I'm talking about how "John Turner" is presented and the positioning of the horizontal bar WRT to the name. I've taken differnt tacks to solving the problem. None of them have been satisfactory. I created text boxes and tables for juxtaposing the texts in the desired position. But the extra space/padding in the fields or table cells prevented a harmonious and continuous look.

Lastly, I've come to believe that I may be able to solve the problem by inserting 2 lines after J ends. But I haven't been able to figure this one out yet.



Please help! I want to be able to send this out as soon as I can. But I want to have that unique look as well.

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Old 10-31-2013, 11:15 AM
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Try DropCap under the Insert Tab.
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Old 10-31-2013, 02:03 PM
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Hey Charles, thanks so much for your pointer, brother. I had no idea this feature existed in Word!

Do you know if the Drop Cap command is available in the header section of the document? It grays out as soon as I go into the header and highlight the first letter of my name!
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Old 10-31-2013, 02:29 PM
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Well, I don't know why the command wouldn't become activated while in the header! But I just typed everything in the body and cut and pasted it to the header. It worked!

Once again, Muchos Gracias Charles. Between you and me, I spent about a day on this, and couldn't make it work. You taught me something valuable today. And for that I will ask the universe to send some good will and positive karma your way.

Now I have an unrelated question regarding the font and the capitalizaiton, if anybody wants to venture a guess. Do you know which font he might be using? And how does he do the all capital lettering, but have a bigger T for "Turner"?

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Old 10-31-2013, 02:48 PM
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You are right, DropCap does not work in a header and it can't be pasted in.

A couple of options:
1 prepare it in the body of a document, do a screen shot, crop so you just have what you want in the header, and paste it into your header.
A second option would be to set up a table in your header with the first cell holding your initial cap. You would want to adjust the paragraph indents on the other columns so they would snug up next to the cap.

This (below) is an example of a DropCap screenshot cropped for pasting.


I suspect you would get sharper text with the table, though. If using a screenshot, the image should be saved as a vector image rather than jpg.
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Old 10-31-2013, 03:08 PM
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Hey Charles, were you not able to copy/paste it to the header? It allowed me to do it! In fact, to be certain, I added additional pages to the document, and the work was replicated in each of the page headers!
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Old 10-31-2013, 05:47 PM
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In Word 2010, which is what i have on this computer, I could not copy a dropCap and paste into a Header. What I got was something different, a huge letter but not set as a graphic.
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Generally you want something like this in a first-page header. You would use something else in your continuation header.

See Setting Up Letter Templates and Letterhead Tutorials
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Thanks again, Charles.

Regarding the 1st page header vs the rest, I was planning to send out the cover letter and the resume as part of the same document. My reasoning is that it will give me the opportunity to present myself and my leadership philosophy, regardless of who ends up getting it, through web sites, recruiters and such.

Now, do you think it makes sense to have the fancier header on my cover letter only, or cover letter and 1st page of resume?
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Old 11-01-2013, 05:21 AM
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Way outside my experience level. Sorry.
My preference would be Cover letter and 1st page of resume.
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Yeah, that would be my preference as well. My rationale being that the they are in fact 2 documents. But who do you turn to for best practices in these matters? Everybody seems to be following different norms and standards.

Charles, any idea on what font the author might be using and how he achieved the all capital with the big T? I played with the font size for the T but it looked disproportionate to the rest of the letters!

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It's in the direction of Copperplate. See if you can find a site that displays fonts by similarity.

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Charles, any idea on what font the author might be using and how he achieved the all capital with the big T? I played with the font size for the T but it looked disproportionate to the rest of the letters!

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Select the rest of the text. Go into Font formatting and check Small Caps.
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Old 11-01-2013, 06:12 PM
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You're absolutely right Ulodesk! I did a side-by-side comparison, and it looks like it's Copperplate Gothic. And it does the all capitals effect perfectly.

Ya'll have been extremely helpful to my cause of finding a new job, and I'm sincerely thankful.

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