Well Stuart (Burnfield) I know what you mean. The best one was where a recruiter tried to open a ZIP file with Word, wondering why it took so long to load, had hundreds of "pages" with nothing in between and crashed her PC. ...and they call themselves IT specialists. Eventually, I had to write instructions for her to open the file. Regards, Michael Granat Write Ideas At 10:31 3/7/2003 +0800, you wrote: > > ... I prefer sending my promotional documents as Acrobat > > files or as RTF (which you can open with almost anything) > > before someone asks "Whats up .DOC?". > >The first couple of times I applied for contracts I sent my resume (*) >as a PDF, only to have the recruiter wail, "Can't open the >attachment, there's something wrong with it, please send Word." >So I gave up. > >--- >Stuart Burnfield >Information Developer Email: sburnf@xxxxxxxxxx >Australian Programming Centre Phone: +61 8 9261 8719 ************************************************** To post a message to austechwriter, send the message to austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe to austechwriter, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject field. To unsubscribe, send a message to austechwriter-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject field. To search the austechwriter archives, go to www.freelist.org/archives/austechwriter To contact the list administrator, send a message to austechwriter-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx **************************************************