Plain: a simple resume template for Google Docs™
Nothing but text, left-aligned, in Arial. A safe default for any job when you don't want the layout to be noticed.
- Parser read 33/33 fields
- 1 page
- US Letter and A4
- Google Docs and Word
- Arial
What a parser reads from it
Field by field, from the PDF that Google Docs exports.
33/33
fields read correctly from the resume (US Letter), downloaded from Google Docs as a PDF and read by the open-source OpenResume parser (commit 4f8255a) on Oct 1, 2026.
What the parser read
First 30 lines, exactly as extracted.
Taylor Morgan Columbus, OH | (614) 555-0128 | taylor.morgan@email.com | linkedin.com/in/taylormorgan SUMMARY Marketing coordinator with three years of experience running email and social campaigns for a regional health network and a retail brand. Comfortable with HubSpot, Google Analytics and Excel, and used to turning campaign results into short reports for managers. EXPERIENCE Harborview Health Partners Columbus, OH Marketing Coordinator Jun 2023 – Present • Plan and send 10 to 12 patient email campaigns a month in HubSpot; average open rate rose from 24% to 31% • Built a monthly Looker Studio report on appointment requests that the director uses in budget meetings • Coordinate print and social assets for 14 clinic locations with two designers and an outside print vendor • Wrote the team's first email style guide, which cut review rounds per campaign from three to one Redline Outfitters Columbus, OH Marketing Assistant Aug 2021 – May 2023 • Scheduled Instagram and Facebook posts for three store openings; followers grew from 4,800 to 9,100 • Tracked weekly promo results in Excel and flagged two coupon codes that were losing money • Wrote product descriptions for about 150 items when the online store launched in 2022 Greenway Market Dublin, OH Sales Associate Jan 2019 – Jul 2021 • Helped about 80 customers a shift and trained five new hires on the register and returns process • Built the weekly endcap displays for seasonal items, which the store manager used as the model for other aisles EDUCATION Franklin Ridge University Columbus, OH Bachelor of Arts in Communication May 2021 • Coursework: Public Relations Writing, Digital Media Strategy, Marketing Research, Statistics SKILLS Marketing: HubSpot, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Canva, Hootsuite
Field by field
What we wrote, and what the parser put in each field.
| Field | Parser read | Match |
|---|---|---|
| Name | Taylor Morgan | |
| taylor.morgan@email.com | ||
| Phone | (614) 555-0128 | |
| Location | Columbus, OH | |
| Link | linkedin.com/in/taylormorgan | |
| Summary | Marketing coordinator with three years of experience running email and social campaigns for a regional health network and a retail brand. Comfortable with HubSpot, Google Analytics and Excel, and used to turning campaign results into short reports for managers. | |
| Job 1 company | Harborview Health Partners | |
| Job 1 title | Marketing Coordinator | |
| Job 1 dates | Jun 2023 – Present | |
| Job 1, bullet 1 | Plan and send 10 to 12 patient email campaigns a month in HubSpot; average open rate rose from 24% to 31% | |
| Job 1, bullet 2 | Built a monthly Looker Studio report on appointment requests that the director uses in budget meetings | |
| Job 1, bullet 3 | Coordinate print and social assets for 14 clinic locations with two designers and an outside print vendor | |
| Job 1, bullet 4 | Wrote the team's first email style guide, which cut review rounds per campaign from three to one | |
| Job 2 company | Redline Outfitters | |
| Job 2 title | Marketing Assistant | |
| Job 2 dates | Aug 2021 – May 2023 | |
| Job 2, bullet 1 | Scheduled Instagram and Facebook posts for three store openings; followers grew from 4,800 to 9,100 | |
| Job 2, bullet 2 | Tracked weekly promo results in Excel and flagged two coupon codes that were losing money | |
| Job 2, bullet 3 | Wrote product descriptions for about 150 items when the online store launched in 2022 | |
| Job 3 company | Greenway Market | |
| Job 3 title | Sales Associate | |
| Job 3 dates | Jan 2019 – Jul 2021 | |
| Job 3, bullet 1 | Helped about 80 customers a shift and trained five new hires on the register and returns process | |
| Job 3, bullet 2 | Built the weekly endcap displays for seasonal items, which the store manager used as the model for other aisles | |
| School 1 | Franklin Ridge University | |
| School 1 degree | Bachelor of Arts in Communication | |
| School 1 dates | May 2021 | |
| School 1 GPA | (empty) | |
| School 1, bullet 1 | Coursework: Public Relations Writing, Digital Media Strategy, Marketing Research, Statistics | |
| Skills line 1 | Marketing: HubSpot, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Canva, Hootsuite | |
| Skills line 2 | Data: Excel (pivot tables), Looker Studio, SQL | |
| Skills line 3 | Certifications: HubSpot Content Marketing, Google Analytics Certification | |
| Skills line 4 | Languages: English (native), Spanish (conversational) |
Shown but not counted
- Columbus, OH: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Columbus, OH: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Dublin, OH: no location field for jobs. It's in the extracted text.
- Columbus, OH: no location field for schools. It's in the extracted text.
This checks our sample text, read by one open-source parser from the PDF that Google Docs' File > Download > PDF produces. It isn't a score, and it doesn't tell you how Workday, Greenhouse or any other hiring system will read your own resume. Anyone can rerun it: the test repository has the PDF (SHA-256 d0c9beb057e4…), the expected values and the raw results. How we test
Specs and editing tips
Everything you need to edit it without breaking the layout.
Specs
- Font
- Arial, installed on Windows and macOS, so the .docx keeps its look
- Body text
- 11 pt
- Margins
- 0.6 in (Letter), 15 mm (A4)
- Length
- 1 page with the sample content
- Sections
- Summary, Experience, Education, Skills
- Good for
- 1–8 years
- Layout
- One column, no tables, text boxes, images or icons. Dates aligned with a right tab stop.
Editing tips
- Dates stay on the right by themselves. Each heading line has a right-aligned tab stop. Press Tab before the date instead of adding spaces.
- Add a job by copying one. Select a whole entry, heading lines and bullets, copy it and paste it below. The spacing comes with it.
- Ran onto a second page? Set margins to 0.5 in, body text to 10.5 pt and line spacing to single, in that order. More ways to fit one page
- Rename your copy. Recruiters see the file name, so use something like Firstname-Lastname-Resume.
Exporting your finished resume
Two downloads from Google Docs cover almost every application.
File > Download > PDF Document. This is the exact path we test on every release. It gives selectable text with the fonts embedded.
Word
File > Download > Microsoft Word (.docx). Our own .docx files are exported this way, and we check that text and bullets survive. Don't convert a PDF to Word.
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Questions
- Is it really free?
- Yes. No account, no email and no watermark. Copy it, edit it and send it to as many employers as you like. The one thing you can't do is repost the template file itself somewhere else.
- Will it get through an ATS?
- Nobody can promise that, and we don't. What we can show is that an open-source parser reads our sample of this template correctly, field by field, from the PDF Google Docs produces. Workday, Greenhouse and others use their own parsers, and your own content matters as much as the layout. How we test
- Can I use it in Microsoft Word?
- Yes. Download the .docx, or copy to Google Docs and later use File > Download > Microsoft Word. The font is installed on Windows and macOS, so nothing gets swapped.
- Why no photo, icons or two columns?
- Parsers read a page top to bottom. Columns, text boxes and icons are the usual reason a resume comes out scrambled. US employers also generally don't want photos.
- Can my name have accents or non-Latin characters?
- Yes, with one caveat. In our tests the parser read José Álvarez, Mary-Jane Smith, Sean O'Brien and Иван Петров correctly, and the layout didn't move. A Chinese name like 王小明 also kept the page intact, but Google Docs swaps in a Japanese font for those characters and the parser left the name field empty. For US applications, put the romanized name first, like Xiaoming Wang (王小明). Phone numbers outside the US format, like +44 7700 900123, aren't picked up as phone numbers either.