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using word and floating images to add my new book to my resume

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Every year I update my resume. This year, I got to add “Real-World Java: Helping You Navigate the Java Ecosystem!” It’s for

  • Those who know the syntax/language, but not the whole ecosystem
  • Students
  • People transferring from another language.
  • People who haven’t worked with Java in many years
  • People on legacy projects

For many years I’ve had the cover of my book and some certification badges on my resume. I had them as individual images up until now. This time I wanted to do better because I wanted the covers to be aligned.

Making the image

I used PowerPoint to align the images. (I also have Keynote on my computer, but PowerPoint was open as Victor and I are using it for our upcoming presentation at the NY/Garden State Java User Groups and DevNexus. Both tools make it easy to align images. I then did a copy and paste special to get a PNG of this is as one big image.

Note: We do not make images for the cert book this ways. Scott made all those images using a proper image editing tool.

Getting it in Word

When you paste into Word, it automatically inserts it into the text. I didn’t want that. I wanted more control.

Instead i right clicked the image and choose Wrap text > In front of text. Then I dragged it to where i wanted.

How it looks

Here’s how the section of my resume for the stuff I don’t do for my employer.

setting up mac office 2019

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I updated to Office 2019 during the pandemic but didn’t use Word much during that time. Now I’m setting it up the way I like.

Show Non-Printable Characters

I find it useful to display the whitespace/line breaks etc. This was easy to turn back on.

Word > Preferences > View and then check “All” for “Show Non-Printing Characters”

Adding Styles Quickly

I need to quickly choose styles. In the previous version of Word I had this was a pull down in the top right of the ribbon. In Office 2019, it is Home > Styles Pane. Then my entire right pane is the list of styles. Include the current style as a derived style on top (ex: paragraph + italic)

This pane also has checkboxes for “show style guides” and “show direct formatting guides.” The former puts numbers/colors on the left side that matches the style. The later, highlights text with special styles (like italics).

This approach takes up more real estate than older Word. (where I could just see the text name of the style). I imagine I’ll get used to this quickly and the colors will start to mean something to me. Right now, it feels a bit like a map with the legend “elsewhere”.

Navigation

I chose View > Navigation Pane and chose “Document Map” so I can quickly navigate to different parts of my document.