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Microsoft Word 2007 is a huge change from the last major roll out of Office's Word in 2003. The trickiest part is the 6 or 7 submenus that require familiarity and the .docx file type that must be avoided but is the default file type for Word 2007. I must say that the Power Point is a much better product than in 2003 in terms of usability and templates. Another great feature is One Note. Check out this link and comments for rave reviews on the utility of One Note for those of us who have moments of inspiration or epiphany and need a quick and easy way to categorize these thoughts. The upgraded Excel is almost a completely different species in the progam family- very restrictive but also very logical.

http://lifehacker.com/399556/five-best-not...ls#viewcomments

I'd say- do as I have done- if you have a partitioned hard drive- keep your 2003 or XP version of Office on one partition and load 2007 Office for Vista on the other partition and spend time getting comfortable with the navigation.... through Word and through One Note. I'd be willing to bet that you will be inspired to switch to the 2007 version eventually.

Good question. I have been using Vista Ultimate on three machines since it first came out. One thing I would think most of us writers would be excited about is: One Note, a notes organizing program that uses Vista as a native environment. One Note is a fabulous organizational tool and a recent poll I recently saw rated it in the top 10% in user satisfaction in keeping them on task and on track. As for Vista- there are some apps I still use XP and Linux for - due to their "versatility" but Vista is a tough and stable environment and overall much more secure than xpSP3. Vista has taken away the ability to "tweak" the system though for speed and variation- the 32 bit software community will need some time to work around all that fortressing of the kernal to give the end user any more desired flexibility. As for resources I would say you need 2 gig of RAM, a decent video card, BUS speed on the motherboard of at least 533 mhz and a Pentium 4, 2.75 (preferably quad core Xeon or comparable AMD quad) or higher to keep from "freezing up". If you don't have the speed- XP is a much smother ride.

Hello Everyone- Question:

How do you know if you are writing good resume copy when there are variables within the
content itself that may cause response rate to shift to the negative substantially?

Is it possible to really show a transferrable skill set (to a yet un-experienced job) without getting too off base on what the resume is designed to do: effectively describe the past?

I have been asked these questions and others (mostly relating to cover letters) so many times - my head spins thinking about it. Any great resources on this subject? Resume copy? I typed resume in search- and had no hits in the heading- is this the wrong area of this forum? Thank you.