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Laughing all the Way to Work
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. Dealing in real time.
Laughing all the Way to Work
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. Dealing in real time. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.
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Laughing all the Way to Work
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.
Laughing all the Way to Work
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. All this time she had been right clicking and choosing Insert row each time she needed another row. She was amazed. To repeat a header row on each page.
Laughing all the Way to Work
OCTOBER 11, 2009
We have all heard it from our colleagues at one time or another when they do not feel a certain job is their responsibility. And sometimes it isn’t, but from my experience if you read an administrative or executive assistant job description there is usually a phrase something like this, “providing administrative support.&#
Laughing all the Way to Work
JANUARY 1, 2009
Now dont forget to put the correct year on your documents. In Word, choose Insert, Date and Time and then highlight the date format you like and press OK. Taking stock We don't know what we don't know ► June (1) Playing nice in the sandbox ► May (2) Whose meeting is it anyway? Dealing in real time.
Laughing all the Way to Work
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. If the computer doesn’t do what we want -- trick it, it is amazing what we can do if we put our minds to it. As long as the end product looks good, at times we have to be creative to get there.
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