On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 07:50:04 -0700, tcseacliff69
<tcseacliff69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>"Mick Murphy" wrote:
>> "tcseacliff69" wrote:
>>
>> > I have vista home premium and an hp pavillion. I scanned my resume into my
>> > documents. made a folder. now, cannot get it to post anywhere. ctrl a, ctrl
>> > c, ctrl v, all i get is a teeny weenie odd looking icon on the websites
>> > window for posting. I sent it to my daughters computer as an e-mail, she told
>> > me it is unreadable all symbols and squiggles.I am not very computer
>> > savvy,but I find word a very complicated program to use out of the box. I
>> > have been told by others "oh,you just attach it!! HOW?! easier said than
>> > done.any suggestions would be appreciated .
>
>> You don't say which email program that you use, which is very important. It
>> is either Windows Mail or Outlook if you have Office installed, or do you
>> just have Word installed.
>>
>> Open up your resume that you have saved in Documents. It should open in a
>> Word document.
>> Under "file, edit, view, etc" at the left-hand top of the window, there will
>> be an icon in the form of an envelope; that is the link to your email
>> program.
>> Click on it, and a window from your email program should pop up with your
>> resume attached. Complete your email as you would normally do, then send it.
>>
>> The other way is to open your email program and click on compose, new, you
>> know what I mean. Then click on "attach" browse t where your resume is
>> stored, double clicking on a folder if it is inside a folder , and follow the
>> prompts.
>>
>> Yo say that it is unreadable at your daughter's end. She will need Word
>> installed on HER computer, or a FREE downloadable Word Viewer from Microsoft,
>> to read your resume as it is written in a specific program
>>
>i have word and word works and office. as far as e-mail. i use msn. my
>problem with my resume is posting it somewhere else other than in an e-mail.
>i just made a discovery last night is though, i have an hp all in one and I
>scanned my resume into my computr. now i looked and my resume is stored as a
>jpeg. the new computers don't have floppy drives so i thought scanning it in
>would be just as good. it is treated as a jpeg image. even as a jpeg i should
>be able to move it from word. I need to be able to post it into an already
>established window on emplyment sites. there is no e-mail just paste here and
>submit,I can highlight it copy it but when i go to the window and hit
>paste-nothing, just some teenie unreadable litle icon of some sort. i will
>try to re-type the resume instead of scan,but a real pita,i have it on floppy
>but no floppy drive. as far as e-mailgoes my address is msn.com,what would i
>be outlook.com??(never used it before)
The .jpeg issue might be the relevant detail. When you copy your resume into
most employment web sites, they are generally looking for text - no fancy
formatting (aka MS Word), and no images (aka .jpeg files).
You need to start by scanning your resume using OCR or a similar process, so the
scanned copy gets converted to text. Anything other than text will be a problem
in employment web sites. And after you do the scan, go over the scanned text
word by word, and make sure that it's accurate.
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