Professional Assistant Blog

JUNE 8, 2010

By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Productivity D o you have trouble trying to book several managers’ meetings, yet you have access to their calendars in Microsoft Outlook 2007? Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Here are a few of my favourites: Travel. This app is slightly more expensive but worth paying for if your manager travels a lot. Whenever you receive confirmation emails from any bookings you can forward it to plans@tripit.com and they will add the details to the itinerary. FlightTrack: £2.99 for Pro version. XE Currency: Free.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Here are a few of my favourites: Travel. This app is slightly more expensive but worth paying for if your manager travels a lot. Whenever you receive confirmation emails from any bookings you can forward it to plans@tripit.com and they will add the details to the itinerary. FlightTrack: £2.99 for Pro version. XE Currency: Free.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 22, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Using Microsoft Outlook Calendar Properly By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity A re you trying to book a meeting with someone or a group of people? Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 22, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity A re you asked to make reservations for your manager(s) at particular restaurants? Do you need to have some sort of written confirmation to make sure that the reservation has been booked? Do you feel that you could be doing this faster?

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Advertise 4 Steps to Setting up E-mail Distribution Lists By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 27, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity D o you find yourself having to write each persons e-mail address over and over again for certain e-mails ? All e-mail distribution lists are bolded.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

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. All you need to do is go through your regular print routine with the following steps: Click File, Print or CTRL-P as the keyboard shortcut.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Yellow Post-It Notes By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity A re you looking for some innovative ways on using your yellow Post-It notes? Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 6, 2010

  This is the back of my card as a sample of what I mean: Creating Your Online Business Card An online business card is one site that lists all of your connection points online.    There are a number of ways you can do this. .    Each is a bit different in look and feel. 

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, November 03, 2008 Filed Under: Networking , Organize , Productivity D o you find articles on this site intriguing? Ive been trying to organize a file room for years and there seems to be very little out there in terms of practical and affordable solutions. Keep up the good posting!

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Home About Me Advertise 11 Tips To Improve Your Performance By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 08, 2007 Filed Under: Office Gossip , Productivity A re you asking yourself, “How can I improve my workplace?&# Take classes, read a book, read current events about new trends that are happening in your field.

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Macros: Shortcuts To Productivity With Microsoft Word By The Professional Assistant on Monday, October 13, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Word , Productivity D o you know what a macro is? Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work? Do you know how to create them? I will explain this later.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 10, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, March 10, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by James of Organize IT. How many blogs, online tools, software and books are there nowadays providing the latest, fashionable way to hit the peak of productivity?

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MARCH 3, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, March 03, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Brian McCullough of TheJobBored.com. But even if you don’t go to such lengths, the key to surviving downtimes is to make sure you have copied your address book over to all your email accounts.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 13, 2010

This is useful if you want to file the email and change the Subject line to something that better describes what the email is about or to put notes in the email. You can also attach a file from Word, Excel or PowerPoint or a business card from your Contacts if it is someone you need to remember to call and want that information available.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 20, 2011

It also helped me write my two books! So, recycle those papers you have written and turn them into your next blog or book! I've recently launched my own blog and those articles will reappear there, and one day they may be re-purposed again into a book. Don't Write Your Book. Talk Your Book.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

DECEMBER 2, 2009

It can be as small as a little paperback book, or as big as a cookbook.     Cons of Planning Tool : Like any other productivity tool, you've got start somewhere so you may have to carry your old business card file or Franklin planner with you for a few weeks before you just to the electronic assistant.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

I ran a book club for 2 years. She gave me her business card. 11) Do your research Through all this outreach, you are hopefully getting interviews and introductory meetings booked. I always have tons of stamps, thank you cards, blank cards, and stationary on hand along with pre-printed address labels.

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