** Simon Elliott alug@sionide.net [2007-10-08 19:12]:
Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
On 07/10/2007, Bev Nicolson bnicolson@operamail.com wrote:
I sent a document to someone recently and their machine kept crashing when they tried to put changes into it. (They use MS.) I've not had this problem before and I'm wondering exactly how compatible Open Office and Word are. What's your experience?
I seem to remember writing my CV in OpenOffice and then exporting it as a Word 97/2000 document so that agencies can open them, and some of them had problems with WordXP (i think) crashing as soon as they opened my document. Word 2003 or 2000 (or whatever was the earlier version) did not crash.
For something like a CV, probably better to export as PDF. 99% of people won't have a problem opening it but Bev's problem comes from editing so it doesn't really apply.
** end quote [Simon Elliott]
I've generally found when dealing with agencies that they will not accept CVs in any format other than Word .doc (although probably the newer Word formats now - it has been a while!). They've usually used the excuse that they cannot read PDFs and even claimed not to have heard of Adobe or Acrobat/PDFs - although given the quality if staff I've dealt with at agencies in the past I can, actually, quite believe that!