I doubt you're using "hidden" tables to format your resume - just borderless tables. Any document parser worth the name should be able to parse tables. Sure you can use tabs to produce a tabular layout, but that is far harder to parse than a table! After all, a table can have multiple rows of text in a since cell; you can only simulate that with a tabular layout by having line-breaks and extra tabs that break up the text flow to the point it becomes a real challenge to parse correctly.

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Paul Edstein
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Well, yes. They're borderless, she simply referred to them as "hidden".

I'll go back to my "hidden tables" and look more closely to see if there are any parsers giving me trouble. Thanks!