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"Excel"ing to Create Subtotal Row Totals

Professional Assistant Blog

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. One of my managers wanted me to use our sales tracking software to create the sales report for a particular product. I was able to put the entire report together within a matter of minutes.

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

Professional Assistant Blog

Your manager asks you to create a report of some sort and wants you to send it to a client, but making sure that they cannot manipulate the information. There is a simple way of getting this type of report to anyone without having to use Adobe Acrobat. Now you can e-mail the report to the client without any problems.

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Overworked? Unload Your Workload to a Freelancer!

Professional Assistant Blog

Whether you need help fixing up that company website, proofreading a report that your boss needs right away or even compiling reports that your boss gave you today and is asking for you to complete it yesterday. Hiring a freelancer can have great benefits. Truths of a Shy Writer can help you when you’re in a bind.

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How to Write Effective E-mails

Professional Assistant Blog

You want to tell your co-worker that you need to get a report from them within the hour. Yet you go on and on about how you want it to look, going into great detail of the type of report you want. Most people these days don’t have the time to read spam, nor do they enjoy receiving it.

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Work From Home? Want to be More Productive?

Professional Assistant Blog

Easily recording the time spent on each task. You can then print a summary report to Excel of all of your hours for any time period, for any task, or for any client. Having all your communication with your clients be in one place, so there is never a question of when or if an e-mail was sent. All communication history is saved.

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Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up?

Professional Assistant Blog

Most of the time, they tend to stand in the middle of the elevator, for easier access to exit. No one wants you to report the weather. So the next time you get in an elevator, keep these points in mind. If you have a cold, make sure to cover your mouth and nose, even if you don’t have a tissue.

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

Professional Assistant Blog

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) report that, “some 10 million American men – fully 7 percent of the male population – either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently from most people.

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