Now looks like I need to add some spaces here. I can go to Borders, and I can go down and say No Border. So let me click on this plus sign to get the whole table, TABLE TOOLS up here. You have to be in whatever you’re working on for those contextual tabs to appear. Now hand on, it’s contextual tab which means… watch…if I click on away from the table, they’ll disappear. Now I’m in TABLE TOOLS here and I can do some things to get rid of those borders, because I know some people just are looking at those borders and I’ve heard a word I’ve said because… ugh… those borders! I’m just going to make this really thin column but it’ll act as a buffer between my titles and my text. Now watch I can do this… let me click on this plus sign that I get in Word 2013 and that will add another column. I have my titles on my left and my text on the right. So now it’s looking more like a resume, right? I can put my cursor right here in the middle and the cursor changes. But now that everything lined up… watch what I can do with a table. Even if I had eight or so I’m going to add all in just one cell.
'Experience', I mean I have what, three here. So even though I have three skills here, I’m going to put that in to one cell. So each part of my resume goes in to one cell. Let’s do 'Objective', 'Skills', 'Experience', okay.Īnd what I’m going to do now is I’m going to go back to my old resume here and grab the 'Objective'. So let’s just hang with me for just a second over here, though. I know you’re going to … Doug, what are those borders doing? Or Darryl, what are those borders doing there? I can add rows very easily and delete them later. And I’m going to make a two by five table. So let’s delete that and then I’m going to go over to INSERT, and Insert Table.Ĭlick on that and I can just drag my mouse down here and I can make a table. Now some people use tabs in ruler and that can save some time but a table can be a big time saver. And as I write out this document, I going to see… hmm, I need cut out a tab or add a tab.Īnd then I need to do that with each area of my resume. Let me go up to the ribbon here and click on Show and Hide Paragraph Marks so you can see what I’m doing here. Now if I was working with, you know, a template here, I put up “Objective” and tab, tab, tab, and start writing what my objective is and then “Skills,” tab, tab, tab, “Experience,” tab, tab, tab… you get the idea. Now I have a little cheat here… I’m just going to add my address box here really quick. We’ll show you why a table is a great time saver in just a moment.īut for people who want to do a resume without a template -sounds kind of scary to me- but you want to know so here we go. We’re going to show you here how to format using a table.