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I have taken a while to carefully sculpt an important document on desktop (my resume in fact). It took me a long time to squeeze it all onto 2 pages, adjusting the top and bottom margins, fonts, etc, to make it happen.
The strange thing is that when I look at the document on Office for Mobile (Android, Nexus 4 phone, Android 5.1.1), it overflows onto a third page and the margins look wrong, as if they are the default setting. When I save as a new document, the changes ae kept in the new document without me doing anything to insert them.
What I'm worrying about, apart from the fact that their is a format change between devices, is that if I open a document on mobile which made on desktop and then share it, I will be sending an unfaithful copy. Furthermore, it will definitely cause problems when people collaborate.
Having taken a couple of minutes to check before posting, I noticed that the new document saved on Android actually had a header inserted (I don't know why that would happen). When I remove the header, the document is now on 2 pages, but there has been a slight change (line 1 of page 2 has moved up to the bottom of page 1). I've checked - you can remove headers in Word for Android (painful but possible) but it has the same line-shift as I found on desktop.
Please, does anyone know how I can avoid Word for Android changing my document?
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Thanks, Doug, for your idea - I didn't know about that option. I checked on desktop and it's checked. I can't seem to find the option in Mobile for Android settings. Having looked at the info bubble, I see where you're coming from on that, but as it was already checked it's not the cause of this issue.
Given the purpose of the document in question, saving it in pdf format would be more appropriate and should eliminate the problem
Doug, I beg to differ. For a start, I am never certain about how the PDF conversion treats the contents (make an image or overlay or tags, or the various types of PDF) - that will cause problems with any ATS. Then there is the question of how does one convert to PDF within Word for Android. Then we also have the problem where I am not a perennial job hunter and actually a professional, so I will have the problem once in a new role. And, of course, it's not supposed to do that: converting to PDF does not stop Word for Android doing something it shouldn't - we go back to Microsoft's marketing thrust - look at the "major changes" promoted by the company for Office 2016.
Do you suggest that I make a PDF of every document I create in Word just in case I have to share it?
Nonetheless, don't et me wrong. I do appreciate you wanting to help me share my document and thank you for it.
If a recipient is supposed to read a document (but not edit it), then sending it as a PDF makes sense.
Word for Android and Word on PC are two completely different animals. An analogy would be to think of a Word document as a saddle and an Word for Android as a horse and Word on a PC as an Elephant. While you could place the saddle on either, if it fits one, it is almost certainly not going to fit the other.
An if you are going to be sending documents to people who do not require to edit them, then yes, the best way to ensure that the recipients see the document in the way that you intend is to send it as PDF.