Creating a Resume in Microsoft Word #3 - Proofing and Printing Your Resume

Welcome back to the final video in this series, making your resume in Word. Now that we’ve created our resume and entered a lot of data into it, it’s time to save the file. Click the Office button and click save. I’m going to type the name for my resume and unless you're sure that the people that you’re sending your resume too can read Word 2007 files. You’re well advice from the ‘save as’ type list to choose Word 97-2003 document.

This is a more universally acceptable format. Click save. To spell check document click the review tab and then click spelling and grammar. Whenever it would encounter a misspelled word, it’s going to flag it for you. It’s going to suggest alternative spellings. This is the correct spelling so I’m going to click change. This is the correct spelling for this particular error. This word is correctly spelled so I’m just going to select ignore once, and now I’m done.

After having spelled check the document I will save it again file, save. It’s important to perforate your document very carefully. You can perforate it by reading it on the screen. Some people like to read this out loud because that’s a way of tracking mistakes. It’s certainly a good idea to print a copy and read that yourself and perhaps have somebody else check it for you. When you’re ready to print the document do a print preview first. Click the office button, select print and then select the print preview.

You can click with this zoom tool see that document up close. This allows you to check it carefully. You can see that the lines that were on the screen no longer existed because we’re in print preview mode and the table lines aren’t going to print. When you’re ready to print, you can click the print button. It’s a good idea to print a draft copy on an inexpensive sheet of paper first so that you can perforate it carefully and then print your final copy. To get out of the print preview, click close print preview.

Some online sites and potential employers may require you to provide your resume in PDF format. Microsoft Word has a PDF save utility available for it but you’ll need to download it and install. It’s available from the web at this website. It’s a Microsoft 2007 add-in that adds the ability to save to PDF files to Microsoft Word, Excel and other applications in the suite. Once you’ve downloaded it and installed the add-in, you can save a file to a PDF file by clicking the office button. Click save as and choose Adobe PDF.

Thank you for joining us for this video series making your resume in Microsoft Word.


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