I’m looking for a new job and had someone rewrite my resumé because it hasn’t been recreated in like 8 or 9 years and I didn’t wanna do it.
They sent it to me but when I opened it in Google Docs all the bullet points had dotted boxes around them and so did the table. Any attempts at making my own edits completely SNAFU’d the formatting. Downloading the doc as PDF looked fine, but of course I couldn’t edit it easily. He was able to fix it so Docs wouldn’t bork everything with one change.
You’ll never be able to predict all potential scenarios, one program will always interpret things one way and the other program will apply it’s own logic and interpret things its own way.
The only way you could have 100% compatibility is if they ran an “emulator” of each other behind the scene for when it’s a document in the competitor’s format that gets opened and I’m sure you can understand why that’s not happening…
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I hate Word and DOCX with a passion.
I’m looking for a new job and had someone rewrite my resumé because it hasn’t been recreated in like 8 or 9 years and I didn’t wanna do it.
They sent it to me but when I opened it in Google Docs all the bullet points had dotted boxes around them and so did the table. Any attempts at making my own edits completely SNAFU’d the formatting. Downloading the doc as PDF looked fine, but of course I couldn’t edit it easily. He was able to fix it so Docs wouldn’t bork everything with one change.
How 🧙♂️
(He probably didn’t say but I’m curious)
In Word there’s a button to show hidden formatting symbols like line breaks. SOMETIMES that can help but not always.
I mean, you’re using different tools to do the same job, what did you expect?
That they be compatible with one another. Word and DOCX are the standard, but Microsoft intentionally making it difficult in order to drive profits.
You’ll never be able to predict all potential scenarios, one program will always interpret things one way and the other program will apply it’s own logic and interpret things its own way.
The only way you could have 100% compatibility is if they ran an “emulator” of each other behind the scene for when it’s a document in the competitor’s format that gets opened and I’m sure you can understand why that’s not happening…
*résumé
I really tried to let it go, but I am regrettably a French.
You poor batârd.