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How to take meeting minutes like a professional

BMT Office Administration

Meeting minutes are a staple of all Board meetings, and many internal company meetings, as they serve as an official written record of a meeting to aid in future decision-making and fill in employees who couldn’t attend. Yet, if you’ve never written meeting minutes before, it may seem like an intimidating process.

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Breaking down Minutes: The Art of Minute Taking

Who's the Real Boss?

However, if the minutes are restricted to those who only attended the meeting, then those team members will only be interested in the actions that arose out of the meeting, plus the very top-level highlights. So, start reading! Step 3 – Prepare.

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Pros and Cons of Going Paperless

Office Dynamics

You can save money on space and security costs; it’s incredible how much space you use storing hard copies of board packs, meeting minutes, and more. Even if your business has robust processes, the chances of misfiling or losing electronic documents without trace is tiny compared to how easy it is to misplace hard copies of things.

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Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have gotten in the habit of doing this frequently during the day and hardly even think about it until the system shuts down for some reason and then I breathe a sigh of relief when I open the document (by pressing Ctrl + o by the way) and find that I have not lost any of my work. Ctrl + a - Selects the whole document.

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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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10 Things = Frustration

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 19 January, 2009 10 Things = Frustration When one team member doesn’t want to play. Meeting documents: some people have it printed single sided and others double sided. It is very hard to follow along when not all members have the document printed the same way. to myself).