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It’s Not the End: Why Creating an Exit Strategy Sets Your Business Up for Long-Term Success

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Paterson advises that if the exit strategy is acquired by a competitor, certain aspects of the company, like corporate finances and internal controls, are more important than if the goal was to take the company public. Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 billion in 1998 and again refused $5 billion in 2002. billion.”

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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. Lets enjoy our day together.©

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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. These are instructions for Word 2003. "I

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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. To automatically insert a new row at the end of a table.

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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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Own Your Niche: Three Reasons to Build Content For Your Own Websites

Andrea Kalli

These three reasons to build content for yourself may not convince you to switch everything to internal platforms, but they should serve as a reason to take more control, exert more influence over, and tightly protect your own content. Copyright law is complex, except when you keep your property.

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On E-mail Blackouts.

Professional Assistant Blog

I have two Gmail accounts, a Yahoo account and even a Hotmail account I haven’t visited in years. Many companies these days have specific rules against importing outside mail into their Exchange system, not only for security and confidentiality reasons, but also because of document retention issues.

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