Ampersand ( & ) symbols cause Word documents to break about hackmyresume HOT 5 CLOSED

Thanks for the info @pmbenjamin. Looks to me like the & isn't being encoded properly for the Word format, which is XML internally. Will roll this into v1.3.

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A lot of these Word encoding errors have been fixed in v1.3.0. Probably worth trying again. Thanks!

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Please re-open if you experience this issue again as the code has changed significantly. Thanks!

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On 29 Dec 2015 20:09, "Peter Benjamin" [email protected] wrote:

Description

I had an ampersand in a few places in my resumejson and discovered that
the generated Word Document errs upon opening due to a corruption

Steps

1 My resumejson can be found here:
https://gistgithubcom/pmbenjamin/b4ba2959bbd036f494a2#file-resume-v2-json
(CTRL+F or CMD+F to search for & symbol)
2 hackmyresume build resumejson generates all documents successfully
3 Opening the doc file throws error:

Illegal name character
Location: Line: 15, Column: 1593

Resolution

1 Open doc file in a text editor
2 Go to location specified in error message (eg line 15, column: 1593)
3 Remove & and save

I doubt that this is a fault of HackMyResume per se, but thought I should
create an issue for it in case others encounter this

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Hi @pmbenjamin, using HackMyResume v1.3.0 I am able to generate and open your v2 resume in MS Word 2013, although I notice that the colored skill bars are missing (make sure each skillset includes a "level" with a value of "master, advanced, beginner, intermediate" or 1 through 10):

@jkoo7yeha are you experiencing this issue? Thanks.

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