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No Budget for Training? Do It Yourself

Administrative Arts

So, stop waiting for Human Resources or the Training Department to come up with the perfect class or seminar for your needs. Wendy Stoneman lives in Vienna, Virginia, and works at a mid-size law firm in nearby Fairfax, VA, where she is a legal secretary in the corporate law division. Create PDF Files for Free. About the Author.

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Retrieve Your Files With Ease

Professional Assistant Blog

That makes sense, but can this system be applied to other information, like monthly bills, tax returns, staff, legal issues, normal company information? B eing able to retrieve the data is more important than an organized alphabetized file drawer. I remember going to a walk-in clinic (doctors office) for an ailment at the time.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Administrative assistants are highly skilled in many areas and sometimes we take it for granted, not recognizing where we could go with our skills.

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

Professional Assistant Blog

It is too easy to press Send and then regret what you have written or find yourself in some legal trouble. If your message is an answer to the sender then just pressing Reply is appropriate or if you are only copied, do you need to reply at all? Be Angry but Send not! If you need to vent, try sending yourself the e-mail you wanted to send.

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

My scanner serves all these purposes -- scan a document in and you can then e-fax it over the internet, print out a copy, edit it directly through OCR software, save it as a PDF and toss the paper. Using this for my financial documentation coupled with AboutOne.com for my employee and legal documents has proved invaluable.