Word Document Problems

Hey All,

I have my reusme as a Word document. I sometimes get responses from potential employers that they are unable to open it. Does anyone have any ideas as to why that may be? I send it to myself or to my current work email and it opens with no problems
Any help would be appreciated.

T.Blue

 

Did not do well for me:

 

I use Word in Office 2003

 

>>I have my reusme as a Word document. I sometimes get responses from potential employers that they are unable to open it. Does anyone have any ideas as to why that may be? I send it to myself or to my current work email and it opens with no problems. Any help would be appreciated. << TimW

Hi T.Blue...

I believe that I may have identified [at least] a 'possible' origin of your problem: I am currently using Office 2003. After downloading the attachment of your TommyBlueResume2.doc - I tried to open the document and received the following error message:

Word was unable to read this document. It may be corrupt.
Try one or more of the following:
* Open and Repair the file.
* Open the file with the Text Recovery converter.
(C:\Documents and Settings\...\test.doc)

See: MSKB Article ID: 889409
You receive a "Word was unable to read this document. It may be corrupt" error message when you open a document in Word 2003

According to Microsoft: "This problem was first corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 2. To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003. After you install the service pack, follow the steps that are listed in the "More Information" section of the article to set the BulletProofOnCorruption registry key and to activate the hotfix."

I already have the latest service pack for Office 2003 installed; however I was not aware of the fact that I had to "Use the Registry Editor to enable this hotfix" as stated in the MSKB Article ID: 889409

I'm not exactly sure this was the 'employers' problem; however I’m guessing that the employers who "were unable to open it" were also using Office 2003 and experienced the same difficulty that I had trying to open this attachment of your TommyBlueResume2.doc.

In other words, this is more than likely not a problem on YOUR end. Although I do not have any specific answer how you can fix this problem [on your end]; I hope this additional info is helpful to you.

Good Luck!

 

The document opens fine in wordpad but not in Word2003/SP2. Puzzling to say the least.

 

BINGO!
I applied the regedit as per the info in COMPUABLE's post and here it is:
Pic didn't take....rats!

 

try again!

 

Opens just like yours with Office 12.

 

Works fine with that hotfix enabled.

 

Good Morning All,
I appreciate all the help. I saved it as a pdf file and sent it again to the person who told me they couldn't open it. It's aggravating to think of the number of employers who probably just deleted it when they couldn't open it but from now on I'll just send it as the pdf file.
Thanks again,
T.Blue