Removing page number from title page - LaTeX - Formatting

Simply use the command \thispagestyle{empty} after the /\maketitle command.

http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=225

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1736/removing-page-number-for-title-page

LaTeX - formatting - utilizing vertical space - \vspace

Again, I was adjusting the look of my CV using the \vspace command because there were extra spaces between section headings, an horizontal line, and the first entry of the section like so:

Here is that section of code:

\section*{Employment} 
\HRule 
\begin{itemize}
\item \textbf{Graduate Research Assistant}
\item University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN
\item November 2011 - Present
 \begin{itemize}
 \item AFRL Prime Contract No. FA9300-06-C-0023
 \item Assisted major advisor who was a reviewer for journal papers in critiquing and writing summaries
 \item Assisted major advisor in building and proofreading research grant proposals
 \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\HRule
\begin{itemize}
\item \textbf{Graduate Research Assistant}
\item University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN
\item August 2006 - May 2011
 \begin{itemize}
 \item Worked on AFOSR grant No. FA9101-06-D-0001/0003, Advanced High-Speed Propulsion Development; Out of the grant I produced and presented one AIAA conference paper and my MS thesis in Aerospace Engineering

So I tightened it like this:

\section*{Employment} \vspace{-5 mm}
\HRule \vspace{-6 mm}
\begin{itemize}
\item \textbf{Graduate Research Assistant}
\item University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN
\item November 2011 - Present
 \begin{itemize}
 \item AFRL Prime Contract No. FA9300-06-C-0023
 \item Assisted major advisor who was a reviewer for journal papers in critiquing and writing summaries
 \item Assisted major advisor in building and proofreading research grant proposals
 \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\HRule \vspace{-6 mm}
\begin{itemize}
\item \textbf{Graduate Research Assistant}
\item University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN
\item August 2006 - May 2011
 \begin{itemize}
 \item Worked on AFOSR grant No. FA9101-06-D-0001/0003, Advanced High-Speed
Propulsion Development; Out of the grant I produced and presented one AIAA conference paper and my MS thesis in Aerospace Engineering

So little things like this make LaTeX, IMO, very versatile/customizable and small changes can make big differences in looks.

LaTeX formatting - right alignment \ruggedleft

Here is a small thing, but I'd thought I'd post it since the small things can be big. Anyways, I was cleaning up my CV and the template I found and am using had my information at the top using this code.

\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
  212 E. Emerald Ave \\
  Knoxville, TN 37917-5531
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
 Phone: (812) 531-9006 \\
Email: \href{mailto:timothy.andrew.barber@gmail.com}{timothy.andrew.barber@gmail.com} \\
Homepage: \href{http://timothyandrewbarber.blogspot.com/}{http://timothyandrewbarber.blogspot.com/}
\end{minipage}

Now the CV looked like this.

Now this is ok, but I decided I wanted it aligned to the right.  So I use the command \raggedleft to do this.  Found here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Paragraph_Formatting

The code now looks like this:

\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
  212 E. Emerald Ave \\
  Knoxville, TN 37917-5531
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\textwidth}
 \raggeleft Phone: (812) 531-9006 \\
\href{mailto:timothy.andrew.barber@gmail.com}{timothy.andrew.barber@gmail.com} \\
\href{http://timothyandrewbarber.blogspot.com/}{http://timothyandrewbarber.blogspot.com/}
\end{minipage}

So I decided to remove the "Email:" and "Homepage:" as well.  Don't worry, my CV is a page on my blog and a few other sites so my info is out there anyways.

Latex - formatting - date

Most document classes automatically use the current date on the title page.  To change the date the date manually simply use the command \date{text} where the "text" is where you put in your date of course (\date{October 9, 1998}).  In order to have no date show up simply put nothing in the \date command braces (\date{}).

LaTeX - Formatting - Text size

Here is a quick list of possible font size commands in LaTeX:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Support/KB/Docs/LaTeXChangingTheFont
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Formatting#Sizing_text

For selective font sizing use for example: {\Large blah, blah, blah}

\( {\Large \text{Large}} \; \text{normal} \)

\tiny

\( \tiny \text{tiny} \)

\scriptsize

\( \scriptsize \text{scriptsize} \)

\footnotesize

\( \footnotesize \text{footnotesize} \)

\small

\( \small \text{small} \)

\normalsize

\( \normalsize \text{normalsize} \)

\large

\( \large \text{large} \)

\Large

\( \Large \text{Large} \)

\LARGE

\( \LARGE \text{LARGE} \)

\huge

\( \huge \text{huge} \)

\Huge

\( \Huge \text{Huge} \)