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A Great Outlook: Adding Holidays to Microsoft Outlook

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Home About Me Advertise A Great Outlook: Adding Holidays to Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize D o you often wonder how you can add your countrys holidays into your calendar in Microsoft Outlook ? In the Calendar Options section, click Add Holidays.

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10 Tips for a Killer Presentation

Ian's Messy Desk

My three favourites: Don’t abuse your visuals – Usually your visuals are posters, charts, or even a PowerPoint presentation. There’s nothing worse than fighting the nervous butterflies in your stomach and seeing the glazed-eyes look of your audience as you slowly bore them to tears. Learn to tell stories.

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How to Manage the Rush Jobs

Ian's Messy Desk

Fifteen minutes later another manager comes by looking for last-minute help with a PowerPoint presentation. For example: typing a 40-slide PowerPoint presentation: two hours, provided all the material is complete. When urgent requests come in from various sources and you’re already pressed for time, how do you handle them?

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How to Analyze Your Audience

Ian's Messy Desk

You don’t fire up PowerPoint and start creating slides. When Preparing for Public Speaking The boss e-mails and says you are going to be training employees on the features of the new software roll-out. What’s the first thing you do? You don’t build an outline of your presentation.

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Blogging Here and There

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I also want to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Happy and Prosperous New Year! Wireless internet cafe are not very common, but people are asking for it day and night. Thus blogging is becoming the norm at these cafés. If you like this post, please subscribe to my feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you.

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Overcome Fear of Public Speaking

Ian's Messy Desk

When we are nervous we tend to read our speeches, focus on the Powerpoint notes and hang on to the lectern for dear life. Repeat this exercise until you feel the tension start to drain away. Get Out in Front Don’t hide behind your material. The audience wants to connect with you. Get our from behind the lectern.

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Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys

Laughing all the Way to Work

Better for you ergonomically as well. These work in Word, PowerPoint, and (Excel and Outlook with some exceptions). I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S.

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