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Subject:Re: Top Resume and Cover Letter Pet Peeves From:Janet Manry <bioedit -at- CONCENTRIC -dot- NET> Date:Fri, 23 Jan 1998 08:23:52 -0600
Jim Grey wrote:
>4. I realize this one's entirely personal preference, but I'm always
>relieved to see someone avoid Times New Roman and Arial in a printed
>resume and letter. It's stunning how many applicants use these tired
>typefaces.
I don't like these typefaces either, but they are the only typefaces I've
found to be completely compatible between PC and Mac versions of Word and
Pagemaker.
I have a Mac, and when I need to send a document to someone with a PC and
it's important that it arrives the way I actually wrote it (almost
always), without any substitutions and with all special characters
intact, I use these two typefaces.
Does anyone know of any alternatives?
Janet Manry, M.S.
Technical Writer for Biology
Houston, TX
bioedit -at- concentric -dot- net
