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Need To Create a PDF? Don't Have the Software? Don't Panic!

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By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Access , MS-Excel , MS-Outlook , MS-PowerPoint , MS-Word , Productivity Y ou receive an e-mail from your manager. Your manager asks you to create a report of some sort and wants you to send it to a client, but making sure that they cannot manipulate the information.

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"Excel"ing to Create Subtotal Row Totals

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Home About Me Advertise "Excel"ing to Create Subtotal Row Totals By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity Y our manager sends you an e-mail with a spreadsheet attached. I was able to put the entire report together within a matter of minutes.

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Overworked? Unload Your Workload to a Freelancer!

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By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Filed Under: Prioritize , Productivity D o you need extra help with your workload ? Think of it this way: You can only do so much and getting a helping hand will get those extra tasks completed when the need to be completed – on time and right the first time.

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How to Write Effective E-mails

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You want to tell your co-worker that you need to get a report from them within the hour. Yet you go on and on about how you want it to look, going into great detail of the type of report you want. Most people these days don’t have the time to read spam, nor do they enjoy receiving it.

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Work From Home? Want to be More Productive?

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By The Professional Assistant on Friday, February 29, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity A re you a Virtual/ Professional Assistant or want to become one? Finding the right tools to manage your business can be time consuming. Easily recording the time spent on each task. Home About Me Advertise Work From Home?

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Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up?

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By The Professional Assistant on Friday, October 17, 2008 Filed Under: Travel Y ou’re standing in the elevator and everyone is crammed like a can of sardines. Most of the time, they tend to stand in the middle of the elevator, for easier access to exit. No one wants you to report the weather.

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Writing when you don't know what you're talking about.

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 16 November, 2008 Writing when you don’t know what you’re talking about. My boss tells me I should be able to write a letter or a report on something even if I dont know the subject that well. Read their letters and reports and see how they craft their words.