Step 4: Set line lengths. In order to save the line length changes you made in Step 3, you need to convert your Text Only or Plain Text document one more time by doing the following:

A. With your Text Only or Plain Text resume document open, click File on your toolbar and select Save As.

B. Type in a new name for this document in File Name, such as ResTextBreak.

C. Directly under this is the Save As Type pull-down menu. From this list, select Text Only with Line Breaks (*.txt). If you're a Windows XP user, save your document as Plain Text. When the File Conversion window appears on your screen, click "Insert line breaks" under Options; then click OK.

D. Click Save to perform the conversion.

E. Close the document and exit MS Word.

F. Reopen the resume document (ResTextBreak.txt) by clicking on its icon in the directory. That will open it as a Notepad document.

G. Select the entire document and change the font to Times, Arial, or some other standard font you like.

Don’t worry that the margins automatically reset when you reopen your Text Only with Line Breaks document. Your line lengths are safely preserved by paragraph returns that were inserted by the conversion.