The following steps will guide you through this:

Step 1: Convert to Text Only or Plain Text. Convert your hardcopy resume to Text Only (not Notepad) as explained in Step 2 of Posting Resumes Online. For your convenience, I'll repeat those instructions here:

A. Open the MS Word document that contains your resume.

B. Click File in your toolbar and select Save As.

C. Type in a new name for this document in File Name, such as ResTextOnly.

D. Under this is the Save As Type pull-down menu. From this list, select Text Only (*.txt). If you're on a Windows XP computer, select Plain Text from the pull-down menu.

E. Click Save to perform the conversion.

F. Now close the document but stay in MS Word.

G. Reopen the document you just closed by going to File in the toolbar, click Open, select the file named ResTextOnly.txt, and click Open. Warning: If you exit MS Word and then open the resume document by clicking on its icon in the directory, it will become a Notepad document, which is not what you want at this point of the process!