I was trying to make a CV that I can keep in pages and update as needed, is that possible?
A coworker made me one from Microsoft Word, it’s great, but I copied it and tried to past it in pages and it doesn’t look right. This guy is really good with Word, so he did a great job. He had little text boxes for the CV.
Is this possible at all in pages?
Or does anyone have any other suggestions? Maybe stick with word?
If you ever need to send out your resume in .docx format, I’d stick with Word for compatibility. If you’ll always be sending it out as a PDF it doesn’t matter.
I’m sure it’s possible in Pages. Copy-paste is pretty unlikely to look good without some adjustment. The two apps don’t have 1:1 parity of design in the same features.
If you keep your resume in Pages and you ever need to send a .docx (hopefully you’re never asked this), exporting as .docx will look fine.
I never found any program that could open a complex Word document without formatting errors. If you don’t own MS Word you could create a free Outlook.com account and try the online version of Word.
Rather than copy paste, just open the DOCX file in Pages. If the word document complex may or may not need repair. but better than copy paste.
That being said, simple and speed-readable CV’s might be better. Fancy turned me off when I was in role to select candidates.
Absolutely, I go through these quickly look for key indicators I’ve identified that are important to me.
There’s no fewer than 9 different résumé templates already in Pages that you can tweak as you see fit to get them looking however you want.
Yes, it’s more than adequate. I designed a custom CV template in Pages and export to PDF when I need to send to someone.