How do I email CV using Open office so it can be opened using Word

WhiteChristmas

Ha! Ha! Snap!

FrugalFriend

WhiteChristmas wrote: »

For things like CVs where format is important then save it as a PDF. This also means it can't be edited by anyone else (it would surprise you how many supposedly competent IT people b*gger up other folk's Word documents).

Yes indeed unless you have the very useful PDF Importer add-on for OpenOffice. Then you can mess up someone else's CV (or other pdf file) as much as you like!
It's now included as standard with LibreOffice 3.3 http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/

By the way, I think all OpenOffice users should switch to LibreOffice. If you haven't heard it's an official fork of OpenOffice. Almost all the former OpenOffice developers have switched to working on LibreOffice. It's very similar to OpenOffice and it will be the focus for all future free software development of this office suite: http://www.libreoffice.org/

*manda*

FrugalFriend wrote: »

This message appears by default, once I have the original document, I usually ignore it and click "save in original format". I usually save the new .doc file under a different file name, for example CV_edited.doc.

About the problem of viewing a file in Word when you don't have Word installed, you can download a Word Viewer application from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=4

Another option is to save your CV in pdf format, easily done in just one click using OpenOffice. Almost everyone has a pdf reader on their computer.

That's what I used to view it in- I think it probably would be ok actually. I may email it to myself at work and open it using their word and see how it looks, failing that will go PDF. Thanks for the tipcs

Paddy2eyes

My preference would be to send it as a pdf. That way it is more secure and you formatting will not change if the recipient uses a different office suite.

debitcardmayhem

If you want to save it as a pdf , and check how it will look at the other end , try Primopdf , which is free, it saves any file via a printer interface which you can open with acrobat reader/foxit reader and print on your printer to check. The other good bit about saving as a PDF it is not so easy to change by a useless admin person at the other end