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12 Last-Minute Gift Ideas For Digital Nomads

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DECEMBER 23, 2022

Having lots of bulky baggage is not ideal when you’re trying to travel light, so gifting experiences, digital gifts, or small items is ideal. . Small, portable gifts like a travel adaptor or chic and practical laptop stand make great tangible presents for any occasion. . 12 of the Best Gift Ideas for Digital Nomads .

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Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook

Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 28, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 28, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , Travel D o you need to book meetings for your manager(s), but most meetings are all over the country or even internationally?

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Finding The Best Travel Deals - Online!

Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Home About Me Advertise Finding The Best Travel Deals - Online! By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, October 06, 2009 Filed Under: Meetings , Research , Travel A re you trying to book a flight, hotel or car rental for your manager? Visit Travel Zoo for the most up-to-date best deals you can find on the internet.

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Need To Create a PDF? Don't Have the Software? Don't Panic!

Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2008

Dont Have the Software? There are other ways to implement this, depending on the software that you are using, but let’s keep this simple for now. Home About Me Advertise Need To Create a PDF? Dont Panic! Please keep in mind that this is not Acrobat Reader (can be downloaded here) , which is free and is only used to view PDFs.

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Sync Your Hand Held Device

Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Sync Your Hand Held Device By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 15, 2007 Filed Under: Networking , Organize , Productivity , Travel A re you looking for software that can synchronize most of your hand held devices? Heres a free piece of software that was recently released that can do just that.

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Increasing Microsoft Excel 2007's Formula Bar Size

Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I was just playing around with the software and stumbled upon this great feature. I remember back in the day when Microsoft Excel 2003 and prior versions didn’t have this feature. Then we upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 and voila! That’s it! Now you have a larger area to work with.

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"Checking In" to a Better Flight

Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 14, 2009

Home About Me Advertise "Checking In" to a Better Flight By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 Filed Under: Meetings , Productivity , Research , Travel Y ou get an urgent e-mail from your boss asking you to book a flight and hotel. The time finally comes when your boss is flying out to that all important business trip.

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Checking Stats for Your Company's Website?

Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 4, 2008

Do you have software in place for it? I have been updating my firms website stats for quite some time now and wanted to share some tips on getting the information correct - the first time. Talk to you IT department and see if they can help you with getting a trial copy of the software.

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Hands Hurt From Typing?

Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Filed Under: Ergonomics , Productivity D o you find yourself typing too much? Home About Me Advertise Hands Hurt From Typing? Using the mouse too often? Heres a product that will help you feel better and relieve pain, carpal tunnel syndrome and repetitive stress injury.

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Copying Tables, Pictures or Text in PDF Files to Other Sources

Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Copying Tables, Pictures or Text in PDF Files to Other Sources By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, January 17, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Excel , MS-PowerPoint , MS-Word , Productivity D id your boss just ask you to copy a table, picture or text to another source of software, such as Microsoft Excel or Word ?

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Would You Relocate to Avoid Traffic Jams?

Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2007

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, December 06, 2007 Filed Under: Job Seeking , Productivity , Travel D o you find yourself getting stuck in traffic each morning and afternoon? Home About Me Advertise Would You Relocate to Avoid Traffic Jams? Do you feel that people should relocate to a closer home or find a new job?

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6 Easy Steps to a Better Work-Life Balance

Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

Home About Me Advertise 6 Easy Steps to a Better Work-Life Balance By The Professional Assistant on Monday, February 18, 2008 Filed Under: Ergonomics , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you find that you are working way too much ? Do you feel that you want to spend more time with your family, friends or by yourself?

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Free ACT! (CRM) Video Tutorials

Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2008

website, which has the following online video tutorials for some of the most frequently used functions in this software. Take a deep breath and follow the instructions below. Ive found a great resource on the ACT! The only thing is that you need to have earphones or speakers at your computer.

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Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving

Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

The reason I use the latter method is because our company policy is that we cant download any software that IT doesnt approve. Then just follow the instructions to installing and using the software. One is the easier way, where you download a file; the other is the longer way. Its compatible with any version of Outlook 2002 or later.

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Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

When you try to save a document as a template, make sure that you click on the drop down arrow in the Microsoft Office software that you are using and select template, when using the "Save-As" command. Just make sure to protect the documents, spreadsheets, etc. so that they dont get changed.

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"Excel"ing to Create Subtotal Row Totals

Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

One of my managers wanted me to use our sales tracking software to create the sales report for a particular product. They ask you to create subtotals for the latest sales report, but want you to only send them the revised spreadsheet showing the subtotal rows. I recently ran into this problem as well.

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Men Wearing Shorts At The Office?

Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 18, 2008

I worked for a software company with a casual dress code and men and women both wore shorts all the time (it was in Houston and warm close to year round). That goes for men and women. However, for business casual and business dress environments, Im still a purist. Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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Business Card Window Envelopes

Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2007

Many software-developing companies provide web hosting services. Here are some of the benefits for it: You can place your own customized business cards in the clear window part to use as a mailer. Website hosting is to provide websites easily accessible online by World Wide Web to clients.

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Work From Home? Want to be More Productive?

Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Finding the right tools to manage your business can be time consuming. You have to understand how a professional administrator operates and also have the technology and software to run your business in a successful manner. Are you just starting out or already have a thriving business?

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Tired of Sending Recurring E-mails?

Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

You can send recurring e-mails as many or as few times as you want. SendLater for Microsoft Outlook allows you to send e-mails directly from your software on your computer (this is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook), but then there is a cost associated with it. Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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Kallout To Research Information

Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2008

In a nut shell, you download the free software , install it and it’s always running in the background. It might even keep you reading information in the browser, instead of focusing on your original task. There is a more productive method that you can use to conduct your research. There is a new service called Kallout.

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Need to Change Excel Details from Vertical to Horizontal or Vice.

Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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Top Reasons for Working in Large and Small Companies

Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Top Reasons for Working in Large and Small Companies By The Professional Assistant on Monday, February 25, 2008 Filed Under: Job Seeking , Productivity , Travel D o you work in a large company ? You can travel more, whether it be to visit clients locally or internationally. A small company ?

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Windows 7: Will It Be Like XP or Vista?

Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 16, 2009

Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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Phishing & Spam - Not Your Everyday Food Items!

Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Many anti-virus software are being advertised this way to secure people from spam e-mails. Another tip is to install anti-virus and internet security software, such as Symantecs Norton products. These types of software even include spam blockers. They would even sell your personal information in chat rooms on the black market.

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Overlapping Calendars In Microsoft Outlook? Really?

Professional Assistant Blog

JUNE 8, 2010

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Has The Bubble Burst?

Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 10, 2008

How many blogs, online tools, software and books are there nowadays providing the latest, fashionable way to hit the peak of productivity? It seems to me that there is now an increasing shift toward simplifying our lives. Who needs to be productive when the amount of stuff you have to deal with is cut in half?

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Retrieve Your Files With Ease

Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

You can use Microsoft Access to create a database of all of your files criteria and the software assigns a "key" or number that corresponds with your files. You can use Microsoft Excel to add all of this information and then add the numbers from the files to your Excel spreadsheet.

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Be Positive About Your Customer Service Issues

Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 17, 2009

Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up?

Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Friday, October 17, 2008 Filed Under: Travel Y ou’re standing in the elevator and everyone is crammed like a can of sardines. Home About Me Advertise Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up? Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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