Creating a Resume in Microsoft Word 2007 #2 - Updating Your Resume

Once you've selected a template to use you now need to fill it with your details. We'll show you how to operate the click and type blocks in the resume template. If the template provides space for more details than you have, we'll show you how to remove surplus sections so you don't leave empty spaces in your template.

Welcome, back in making your resume in word series. Were ready to enter some data into our resume, were going to start with the objective. These elements that are in brackets here have been setup as what are called click and type blocks all you have to do is click on them and you'll see a blue bar behind them. That means that the whole area is now selected so you can just start typing the text that’s highlighted in blue is going to disappear and you're text is going over the top. Now that we’ve created our objective we are ready to go forward to Professional Highlights. If you don’t want to use the words Professional Highlights you can just select the words and type over the top. And now we need to enter our first field or area of achievement, now were ready to add our first job responsibility or achievement that is if note, we’ll just click on each of this in turn and add some content. Now, I've got two more fields or areas of achievement to go but I don’t need the third one. If there’s an element that you don’t need just click and drag over the top of it to select it. When I press the delete key it will be removed. You can say that I've got an extra bullet point here all I need to do is to press the backspace key to get rid of it. Lets continue on more skills for now, you might notice here that this table cell is divided into two, we’ve got five items on the left and five on the right. I have eight items in total so I have decided I don’t need the button item in either of this table cells. So I'm going to click and drag to select the item I don’t want and press the DELETE key. Again I've got an extra bullet point here so I press the backspace key. Again I don’t want this last one here, drag over it to select it, press the DELETE key to remove it and press backspace to move back and remove that bullet point, when hold my mouse pointer over that dash line that divides the two cells my mouse point to change its shape. I’ll just click and drag to the right. Were ready now to add employment history I’ll click on the job title to select it and then I'm just going to type over the top. Now I need to add the company name City and State and now the dates of employment. And then the next job title, we have more lines for job details that we need. I'm going to drag over the cells to select them. Up here on the tool bar you will see I have table tools selected and I need the layout tab. And now what I need is the DELETE button here. I want to DELETE this row, so I'm going to select delete rows. And the row has now been removed. I'll go ahead now and finish entering just this little bit of data into the resume. In the next video, we look at finishing off our resume.