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I can understand wanting to download an editable version of the document, but in my experience no company has ever specifically asked me for a word document, I've always sent PDFs. Microsoft was the only company that communicated via word docs (which looked like absolute garbage, by the way, since they expect you to have purchased the latest and greatest office suite complete with all of its useless features), and I still sent them a PDF resume and it turned out just fine.

I feel once editing is done, PDFs are much more professional because they open without any virus warnings, update notifications, or "this document is in read-only mode" banners.

That said, yes, when editing is NOT done a PDF is almost impossible to deal with.