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How I imagine the conversation: "It took a lot of work, but LibreOffice 7.6.4 can now open a wide range of word processor documents from pre-1994 on both Win
by rrr_oh_man 3y ago
How I imagine the conversation:
"It took a lot of work, but LibreOffice 7.6.4 can now open a wide range of word processor documents from pre-1994 on both Windows and Mac machines."
"Can it edit .docx files without screwing up formatting yet?"
"No, but who uses THAT?"
(shamelessly adapted from https://xkcd.com/619/ https://xkcd.com/619/)
- david422 3y agoMany many years ago I was distributing my resume as MSWord documents that I had so nicely crafted in LibreOffice. Years later I happened to open one of those resumes in actual Word and realized all my careful formatting was completely trashed.
- toast0 3y agoThat's ok. HR departments were going to trash the formatting even if it looked good in MS Word. They manage to trash the formattimg for plain text resumes too.
- vidmak 3y agoIt's not just between LibreOffice and Word. Up until at least Office 2016, .docx formatting would regularly break for me between Word versions or between Office for Windows/Mac. Admittedly, Microsoft has got better with this as of late, but the .odt format is much more solid.
- hopw_roewur_ne 3y agoFormatting for docx files isn't the same between modern desktop Word, and the online version either, I've had trouble with tables for example.
- bee_rider 3y agoI stick to PDF for that sort of thing. No need for them to edit your resume, right?
- mark-r 3y agoI've had recruiters ask for editable resumes because they don't want to reveal your name until you've gone far along enough in the hiring pipeline.
- bonton89 3y agoI'd just send them a blank named PDF document copy if that was their only justification.
- toast0 3y agoIn all likliehood, they're going to copy and paste your resume into their tracker, and it's going to look like garbage regardless.
- notatoad 3y agothat xkcd has aged beautifully.