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Column Aligning w/o Tables
Hey all!
I'm used to aligning things across columns by using tables. I do this because I find the "column" feature to be finicky, especially when I'm only doing 2-3 items. However, I'm being told by a career center rep that because I'm using "hidden" tables to format my resume that a lot of parsers out there will not be able to read the document properly when uploaded. I'm fine without using tables to align things. However, when I use "tab" it only seems to align segments of text that are consecutive across lines. When I want to align something that acts as a sort of header, it will not align to the other headers. As a result, when I look at my headers, half of which should be aligned left, and the other half which should be aligned right, there's a sort of awkward placement of items that depend on line length and tabs used. I'd like to be able to have them align just as if I'd used a table. |
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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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I'll go back to my "hidden tables" and look more closely to see if there are any parsers giving me trouble. Thanks! |
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If you get stuck, you could do the composition using tables, then use the 'Table to Text' function to convert them to a tabular text layout. Although you'll get a text structure that's basically the same as the original table's, you'll still have to deal with the line-wrap issues.
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