Pat Lashley's Resumés

ISO Standard Open Document

This is the best version. It should be readable by OpenOffice.org, KOffice, Google Docs, NeoOffice, Zoho, IBM Lotus Symphony, Corel WordPerfect Office X4, and other modern standards-compliant office software. There is also a conversion package for use with Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org can be downloaded from http://www.openoffice.org and used at no charge.

Adobe Portable Document Format [PDF]

With a good PDF viewer, this version should look as good as the original.

HTML

Automatically converted via OpenOffice.org. It should be viewable by any standards-compliant browser; although for best results the browser shold understand CSS style sheets. It tries to keep the two-column areas by generating a (old Netscape-specific) MULTICOL tag. Most modern browsers seem to just ignore the tag and display in a single column. (Not as pretty; but no info lost.)

MS Word 97/2000/XP Format

Automatically converted via OpenOffice.org. (But note that WordPad makes a real hash of it.)

MS Word 2003 XML

Automatically converted from odt by OpenOffice.org.

Rich Text Format

Automatically converted from OpenOffice.org. Most of the formatting info appears to be intact, if you have a viewer that can handle all of the commands. (WordPad does a better job on this than on the .doc version; but the multi-column section and the bullets are still wrong.) May still be missing fine spacing details that will throw off the entire document.

Note that some of the comments on the readability of the converted forms apply to the old version from 2003; and may no longer be valid with the new version of OpenOffice.org. I haven't had a chance to test them.