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		btilly on April 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I, Jeff Bezos, Keep Spending Billions On Amazo... To convert LaTeX to word, use something like http://hyperlatex.sourceforge.net/ to convert it to HTML, and then rename it .doc. Word should be perfectly happy reading that. And a lot of places that say they only accept Word won't notice the difference. (I don't know about Amazon.)

derekp7 on April 27, 2011 [–]

Actually, a lot of the places that require Word format use a tool which extracts relevant information from the resume to automatically populate their database. For some reason those custom tools don't work with text documents (go figure).

btilly on April 27, 2011 | [–]

I didn't say it worked with all. But it works with a lot.

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