Job Advice Blog
MAY 30, 2010
Oftentimes, you review the document so many times it starts to blur and you can miss something glaring. The following is some guidelines to make sure you are delivering a error free document: - Use a dictionary / thesaurus when you write. All punctuation should be consistent throughout the document. CONSISTENCY IS KING.
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.©
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Laughing all the Way to Work
MARCH 29, 2009
Polish up the ol resume It is all right to send your resume out and see what kind of response you get. In this new age of not doing anything more than a quick spell check on documents, make sure you do not have any spelling mistakes in your resume. Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy?
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
www.officearrow.com
OCTOBER 28, 2010
Plus, well-documented business systems are a useful tool for training someone new or for meeting regulatory compliance. How will you document your procedures and what resources or tools are you going to use? Every job and procedure is documented. Step One: Start at the End. Step Three: Train Others to Use It.
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. Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy?
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.
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