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Professional Assistant Blog
AUGUST 28, 2008
Home About Me Advertise Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 28, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , Travel D o you need to book meetings for your manager(s), but most meetings are all over the country or even internationally?
Professional Assistant Blog
JANUARY 30, 2008
The spreadsheet might contain other types of data, but is similar to this example? checked (in this example). Imagine your boss comes to your desk and asks you to provide him/her with details of how much each firm earned in revenue on this spreadsheet. You think to yourself, how can I do this quickly, without much manual work?
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Professional Assistant Blog
JULY 24, 2008
For example, I receive an e-mail from my direct supervisor. Here are the steps to doing this: When you receive an e-mail, click on Tools, and then Organize. No, you are not making your screen more lively - well, if thats what you are intending to do, then go ahead. Then I have my faxes set up as green. Click on Using Colors.
Professional Assistant Blog
OCTOBER 7, 2008
Having a timer at your desk can be a great tool. Virtual Stopwatch gives you the option to set a predetermined amount of time. For example, you want to spend one hour on a particular project. But of course, you don’t want to disturb others around you with the bell going off or some even have chickens clucking as the alarm.
Professional Assistant Blog
AUGUST 21, 2007
Here is how to calculate the difference between two numbers as a percentage: For example, your earnings are $2,342 in November and $2,500 in December. It kept providing me topics that werent relevant to the particular answer I was looking for. I then checked Excels help file and there it was.
Laughing all the Way to Work
OCTOBER 18, 2008
Ask for business cards and have a stack of business cards for yourself at hand as well. If you meet someone at an Administrative Assistant conference, for example, make sure to follow up with that contact within a week or two after the event. Give, receive and record contact information. Keep in touch.
Professional Assistant Blog
JANUARY 9, 2008
For example, if I have Microsoft Excel XP and would like to send a file to a client that only has Microsoft Excel 97 (which was a horrible disaster for Microsoft, since there were quite a few bugs in this version), you could save the file as a Microsoft Excel 97 version. I remember in the past that you can always downgrade files.
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