Appearance of ERAS CV

[armonia]

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Has anyone looked at the preview version of the ERAS CV and noticed that the publication entries all run into one another? My ERAS CV looks like a jumbled mess

 

[NotAProgDirector]

Looking at a few of the CV's in my ERAS, they all look fine, spacing is not a problem. I wouldn't worry too much about it, the same information is displayed on your CAF anyway, which is what I use (and I expect most other PD's use also).

ERAS clearly has some formatting / spacing issues with it, and I never hold applicants responsible for these. This is especially true in the personal statements. Many people write their PS's in Microsoft word, and then copy and paste them into ERAS (or so I would assume). Unfortunately, MS Word includes many formatting codes and other special characters, which do not translate into ERAS. The classic example of this is the "curly quotes" -- MS Word usually replaces the usual striaght quotes with curly ones, and ERAS ends up replacing these with some other nonsensical character. I ignore all of this stuff.

 

[Faebinder]

Looking at a few of the CV's in my ERAS, they all look fine, spacing is not a problem. I wouldn't worry too much about it, the same information is displayed on your CAF anyway, which is what I use (and I expect most other PD's use also).

ERAS clearly has some formatting / spacing issues with it, and I never hold applicants responsible for these. This is especially true in the personal statements. Many people write their PS's in Microsoft word, and then copy and paste them into ERAS (or so I would assume). Unfortunately, MS Word includes many formatting codes and other special characters, which do not translate into ERAS. The classic example of this is the "curly quotes" -- MS Word usually replaces the usual striaght quotes with curly ones, and ERAS ends up replacing these with some other nonsensical character. I ignore all of this stuff.

😱 Went and double checked the PS that I had (Paranoia).. I know the double quotes get replaced and turn red so i had corrected them prior to sending the PS but the single quotes don't go red when they get replaced on ERAS. 😳 Redid the PS and resent it. Thanks for the hint. Though I realize it doesn't matter much, the perfectionist in me had a fit.

 

[armonia]

Looking at a few of the CV's in my ERAS, they all look fine, spacing is not a problem. I wouldn't worry too much about it, the same information is displayed on your CAF anyway, which is what I use (and I expect most other PD's use also).

ERAS clearly has some formatting / spacing issues with it, and I never hold applicants responsible for these. This is especially true in the personal statements. Many people write their PS's in Microsoft word, and then copy and paste them into ERAS (or so I would assume). Unfortunately, MS Word includes many formatting codes and other special characters, which do not translate into ERAS. The classic example of this is the "curly quotes" -- MS Word usually replaces the usual striaght quotes with curly ones, and ERAS ends up replacing these with some other nonsensical character. I ignore all of this stuff.

Thanks for the reply! The CAF is much more readable than the CV format.