Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Dont know how to organize yourself and things are starting to pile up? Here are 7 simple things you can do to improve your filing system: Try filing your documents into file folders, then put them into hanging file folders. We actually use labels that we print up on our laser printer, instead of using a label maker.

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MARCH 3, 2008

It’s a reminder to all of us that depending on one system alone works fine, right up until the time that it doesn’t. In this case, commercial email services were affected, but the next time it could be your server at work. Hopefully, not too many of you were affected by the email system outages yesterday.

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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. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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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. 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca

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MARCH 5, 2008

Thanks, Richard Posted on 5 March, 2008 10:43 AM Deb I love CTRL-Z (undo), CTRL-H (find & replace), the split screen feature in Word (it splits the screen into 2 sections so you can look at 2 different areas of the document at the same time. Especially when you are cutting and pasting in a 200 page document!!

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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. 411 Look Up 411.ca " Warning! I look like that!!

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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. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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MARCH 29, 2009

When an opportunity came up, I went for it. Working is something we all have to do, but when it loses our interest, it makes it pretty hard to get up in the morning and make the commute in. Polish up the ol resume It is all right to send your resume out and see what kind of response you get. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca Confessions of a Micro-Manager ► September (3) The Advertising Game Atlanta, Georgia: The City that Smiles We live in an Acronym Happy World. " Warning! Incoming text message.

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JANUARY 1, 2009

Now dont forget to put the correct year on your documents. Until you remember on your own what year you are in, this is a good back up system. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!" 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca Lets enjoy our day together.©

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AUGUST 29, 2009

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?

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MARCH 15, 2009

Tried and True Method: I set up 12 hanging file folders labelled January through to December. For paper things that I need to remember to follow up on, I put the letter or document in my Wait Bin (which is a tray for things I am waiting on). The system I use is quite simple and has been around for a long time.

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DECEMBER 12, 2009

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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DECEMBER 17, 2008

A good assistant knows just where to find the document or file needed, or they won’t stop looking till they do. Having a good filing system and keeping the file list up to date is something every assistant needs to be able to do. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!"

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JULY 29, 2009

Since I got in at 9 and my boss was in an hour before me, I knew he had probably seen it already so decided to suck it up and just go in and ask him. Proofing documents can also be funny. I thought somebody ought to tell her, so I caught up to her and it turned out to be someone from my own office. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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FEBRUARY 20, 2008

I would not recommend using underlining for emphasis in an electronic document as underlining a word usually means you are linking to something else. Sometimes a better way to communicate would be picking up the phone or meeting someone face to face. This is the commonest form of color blindness, but it affects only.4

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AUGUST 10, 2010

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. " Warning!

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MAY 24, 2009

spacing To insert a document i.d. or a filename path to your document Insert Footer, Edit Footer On Insert Tab, click on drop down menu for Quick Parts. Then open a new document and paste (Ctrl v). To print the entire screen, press the PrintScreen key and then paste it into a blank document. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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AUGUST 30, 2007

Here are the simple steps on how to copy tables: Open your Word document that contains the table. Now you can show your boss the new presentation that they were asking for, without getting your stress level up. This actually is quite easy to do. Open Powerpoint and click on File, then select New, then Blank Presentation.

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JANUARY 19, 2009

You usually answer according to what you see on the display and say “Hi&# , thinking it is an internal call, but they are transferring an outside call so you end up sounding unprofessional. Meeting documents: some people have it printed single sided and others double sided. 411 Look Up 411.ca 411 Look Up 411.ca

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