How to Type a Resume in Adobe Pagemaker
When you are looking for a job, you can type a resume in Adobe PageMaker, a desktop publishing application. PageMaker enables you to position text on the page and then add style, such as bold and italic, and change the size of the text to help you emphasize facts to your potential employers. Adobe has discontinued developing PageMaker, but the company still sells the latest version, PageMaker 7.0. Adobe no longer provides technical support for PageMaker.
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Instructions
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Launch Adobe PageMaker on your computer and create a new document.
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Click the "Rectangular Text Box icon" on the Tools palette. Click on the page and drag to draw a text box that spans the top of the page from left to right, and then release the mouse. Make the text box large enough to contain your name, contact information and an optional career objective. Drag the handles on the sides of the text box to re-size it.
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Click the "Text tool icon" marked with the letter “T” on the Tools palette. Type your name and contact information in the text box at the top of the page. Press the “Enter” key on the keyboard twice, and then type an objective if you want to provide potential employers with the type of job you are seeking.
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Click the text of your contact information to select it, and then click the “Center Text” icon on the Control palette to center it.
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Click the top of the PageMaker application window and drag downward to create a horizontal guide and position it four inches from the top of the page or however far down you want to type the first item in your resume, which will be a time period or category of work.
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Drag a vertical guide from the left side of the PageMaker window to position it toward the middle of the page, or as far to the right as you want to place the details of your work experience.
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Click the "Rectangular Text Box icon" and then drag your mouse to make a vertical text box on the left side of the page. Make the text box large enough to accommodate the first category of your resume, such as the current time period for a chronological resume or a job category for a functional resume. In a chronological resume, you list dates on the left side of the page with corresponding job titles, tasks and accomplishments in a text box on the right side of the page. In a functional resume, you emphasize the type of work you’ve done in your career without calling attention to the periods in which you did it or to any gaps in your employment history.
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Click the "Pointer tool," marked with an arrow in the Tools palette, and then drag the text box toward the horizontal guide to make it snap in place. Click the "Rectangular Text Box icon" again and make another text box to contain the details for the first category of your resume. Click the "Pointer" tool, and then drag the text box until its left side aligns with the vertical guide and its bottom side aligns with the horizontal guide.
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Type the most current period in the first text box on the left, such as “2009 to Present” if you are making a chronological resume. Type a category of work, such as “Manager” if you are making a functional resume.
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Click the text to select it, and then click the “B” icon on the Control palette to make the text bold or click the “I” icon to make the text italic. Click the font drop-down menu and then click the name of a font to select it. Click the font size drop-down menu and then click a font size number to change the size of the font.
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Type the details of your first category in the first text box on the right side of the page. Because the text box on the right side is aligned with the same horizontal guide as the first text box on the left, they will match up and look neat.
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Drag additional horizontal guides below the first left and right text boxes, and then create new text boxes for the categories and details of the next sections of your resume, such as “2007 to 2009” or “Foreman” in the left box, and the details of that work period or title in the right box.
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Create additional text boxes below your employment history or job descriptions. Type in information about your skills and educational background, as well as optional information about your certificates and interests. Click "Save" when you are done.
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References
Resources
- Adobe: PageMaker Support Center
- PageMaker 7.0 from A to Z; Mark Campbell
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