[Tex/LaTex] Converting TeX to MS-Word for recruiters asking for resumes in word files

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What do you do when you have spent considerable effort finessing your resume in TeX and a recruiter asks you for your resume in MS-Word?

Do you:

  1. Spend the time to produce something that looks half as good as the TeXed result,
  2. Ignore the openings advertised by that recruiter, or
  3. Somehow convert the resume to a draft in Word that you then edit?

If you take the third approach, please share what you do.

I've used Word over the years when someone had been passing a form that needed filling, but I have yet to learn the actual basics, hence my question.

Let me comment here on the answers to benefit from the ability to format

Solution: Use TeX4ht's htlatex

A resume is likely to use either tabbing or tabular environments extensively. If you run htlatex on the file:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabbing}   Job A {\centering Years A} \` Company A \\   Job B {\centering Years B} \` Company B \\ \end{tabbing}

\begin{tabular}{lcr}   Job 1 & Years 1 & Company 1 \\   Job 2 & Years 2 & Company 2 \\ \end{tabular}

\end{document}

You will find that tabular is handled correctly, but tabbing is not.

Solution: Use online conversion tools

One did indeed produce a decent output, but it would be nice to know that the web site is not run by a marketer, a spammer, or worse. Sites that provide a program to download to one's own computer reduce somewhat this worry.

Best Answer

I have used online services that convert PDF's to word with actually great success. The site I used is http://www.pdftoword.com/ but there are a bunch of them. A bit indirect but worked well.

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