[AJerman]

If you want a professional resume, leave out the pretty graphics and alignments and all that junk. Your resume should be entirely readable in plain text as it is in any other format. In fact, I typically only use a simple RTF formatted resume for online submissions.

The most important thing is to be simple. People don't care how pretty you can make your resume, they just want a clean and easy to read resume that conveys the information needed and nothing more.