Microsoft Print to PDF resume: combine your resume and cover letter
Send one PDF with your cover letter first and resume after. This works on the PDF Microsoft Print to PDF exported. MythosPDF turns the drawn letters back into real text in the resume's own shapes, so you can edit it and systems can read it again.
How to do it
- 1.Open Merge PDF.
- 2.Add the cover letter and the resume, in that order.
- 3.Download the combined PDF.
How Microsoft Print to PDF writes resume PDFs
- • Microsoft Print to PDF often draws every letter as a shape, so nothing can be selected.
- • Applicant tracking systems cannot read a resume with no text.
- • Thin letters and punctuation from many lines are often batched into one shape.
- • See the Print to PDF section for how the text is recovered.
What happens to the rest of your resume
- • Every page is kept exactly as it was.
- • Links in both files keep working.
Questions people ask
+Should they be one file?
Only if the application asks for a single upload.
+Is it better to edit in Microsoft Print to PDF?
If you still have the Microsoft Print to PDF version and a lot to change, yes. For a quick fix to the PDF you already sent, editing the PDF is faster.
Other edits to a Microsoft Print to PDF resume
- Fix a typo on your resume
- Update your job title
- Add a bullet point to your resume
- Edit a bullet point on your resume
- Delete a bullet point from your resume
- Change employment dates on your resume
- Update the phone number on your resume
- Update the email address on your resume
- Add a LinkedIn link to your resume
- Add a portfolio link to your resume
- Update the skills on your resume
- Rewrite your resume summary
- Update the education section
- Add a certification to your resume
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