Document Etiquette Presentation Time Zones 
Office Dynamics
JUNE 27, 2012
Some time ago, we asked readers for a list of their pet peeves with emails. The results led to our first “ Email etiquette ” story. Sometimes people feel that they need to send me every document at once. The “oops” factor: Keep a careful watch on time zone references as well. states or nations.
Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant
JANUARY 8, 2013
This company is so ginormous I am having a dizzy time of trying to wrap my brain around what all they do – various forms of power, civil engineering, and then the IT services side of it. I am learning time zones and currencies and every day I am shaking in my boots that it might be too much but I want it so dang bad!
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Laughing all the Way to Work
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
© 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. Lets enjoy our day together.©
Laughing all the Way to Work
OCTOBER 26, 2008
.© 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. These are instructions for Word 2003. "I
Laughing all the Way to Work
JULY 26, 2009
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. To automatically insert a new row at the end of a table.
Laughing all the Way to Work
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
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.
Laughing all the Way to Work
OCTOBER 11, 2009
Its all in how you handle it and how you present it to your boss. "It Prioriting your work can also help to show your boss what is the urgency to some of the work you are doing and what is getting left behind because of it. It is not in my job description" comes across as whiney and it looks like you dont want to do your job.
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