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Creating Internet-Friendly Documents

Have you ever had the highly aggravating experience of almost completing a job application and then being instructed to cut and paste your résumé into that little box at the end of an internet application? If so, you may find that after hitting that paste button your document does populate that tiny field. Instead, your beautiful résumé has morphed through the Internet and become your worst nightmare.

Isn't there an easier way? Yes, however, there is no universal type of document that computers will read 100 percent of the time. Nothing is guaranteed, especially when sending documents from your desktop across ...