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Your Roadmap to Effective Office Systems

All Things Admin

A good system is documentable, sharable, and repeatable. It should be easy for someone else to pick up, follow, and achieve the same results, even if they’ve never touched the project before. The best way to explain how to document your systems on paper is to show you. Review calendars and compile date and time options.

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Different spellings: British, Canadian and American

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 27 February, 2009 Different spellings: British, Canadian and American I was proofing a document the other day, but since Ive been reading documents from the United States and Canada, I couldnt remember if behaviorial was the American or the Canadian spelling. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Repeating Headers and Footers while in Sections

Laughing all the Way to Work

.© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 26 October, 2008 Repeating Headers and Footers while in Sections Someone was asking on another site how to repeat a footer for just one section in a document, i.e. a table. She said it would be the same instructions for a table or a document in Word. 411 Look Up 411.ca Dealing in real time.

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On the job tips for new Admins.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I started this blog to share the knowledge I had picked up over the years either from other administrative assistants, my bosses or from trial and error. Bring Forward System or Using Tasks in Outlook Have a system to follow up on items your boss has asked you to do or things you know you need to do. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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Frustration Busters!

Laughing all the Way to Work

Recently I was working with someone on an Excel document. They sent an e-mail wondering if any of the assistants could help them export a document from Excel to Word. Unlike Word you will only see the header repeated when you do a print preview or print the document. But how do you know what you dont know? Dealing in real time.

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We live in an Acronym Happy World.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Coming from a legal background, we were always taught if you are using an acronym or initialism in writing, on the first use you should spell it out and then put the acronym in brackets, which makes a lot of sense and saves a lot of head scratching and searching the document to figure out what the person is referring to. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Managing your Boss's Inbox

Laughing all the Way to Work

I can hardly keep up with my own e-mails at times let alone someone elses account, but that is part of my job. Of course my comments are limited because the subject matter is not my expertise, but he relies on my input and corrections to make the document look good. Does it raise a question for you to follow up with your boss?