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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Here are some of my favourites: Great Apps: Travel. This app is slightly expensive but worth paying for if your manager travels a lot. You can set it for your current location or receive alerts from places you are planning to travel too. If your manager travels on one airline frequently it is worth downloading their app.

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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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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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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 4, 2008

Do you have software in place for it? Its a great piece of software that will help you and you marketing department figure out the best course of action to increase your sites popularity. Its a great piece of software that will help you and you marketing department figure out the best course of action to increase your sites popularity.

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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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AUGUST 21, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 21, 2008 Filed Under: Job Seeking , Networking H ave you noticed that Administrative jobs have been more and more difficult to find? Home About Me Advertise Administrative Jobs Decreasing? Have you been laid off in the last few years?

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

It even happened to me a few times, where people would create files themselves, then send it around to others to review and make changes, but never save it on the network drive. The reason I use the latter method is because our company policy is that we cant download any software that IT doesnt approve.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Another option is to create templates in Microsoft Office and either e-mail them to everyone or place them on a network drive for everyone to access. This way, everyone will be using the exact same documents , spreadsheet , etc. Just make sure to protect the documents, spreadsheets, etc. so that they dont get changed.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 21, 2010

The Dymo business card scanner app for the iPhone  is such a product.    You download the app to your iPhone (they also support other smartphones) and when you take a picture of a business card it automatically adds the appropriate information to your contact list.   It's also kinda fun to use. 

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Do you fear that opening an e-mail will cause a virus to roam around your firms network and do some potential damage? 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. Youre not alone.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Closing Shared Files While Away From Desk By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity D o you share files on a network within your office? Are you the type of person that needs to run between your desk and other places on a regular basis? I am one of these people.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 10, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, January 10, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Networking , Productivity A re you stuck at home because youre sick? If youre feeling well enough to be able to work from home (telecommuting), an alternative would be to ask your IT department to set you up with VPN (virtual private network) access.

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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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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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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, November 03, 2008 Filed Under: Networking , Organize , Productivity D o you find articles on this site intriguing? This is a networking tool that Ive been using for quite some time now. Home About Me Advertise Organize With Social Bookmarking!

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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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Professional Assistant Blog

APRIL 1, 2008

" One of the most productive ways to update information on files is to either create or move a file into a shared folder on your companys network drive. If your company doesnt have a network, since you might be in a smaller organization, you can e-mail the file around to the various people and ask them to add their information.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 18, 2008

Post from: Administrative Assistant Tips 2comments for this post Jodith I have no problems with shorts in the office if its a casual environment (and I mean casual, not business casual). 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).

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JULY 7, 2010

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Are you just starting out or already have a thriving business? 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.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Attracting Productivity: Work Environments By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Job Seeking , Networking , Productivity D o you think of yourself as a productive person? Do you feel that you are happy at your job?

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Filed Under: Job Seeking , Networking , Organize , Productivity A re you in the process of looking for a job? Youd be surprised of how many people in your network are willing and able to help out. Home About Me Advertise Cant Find a Job? Change is inevitable.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

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. LetterMeLater.com allows you to send e-mails via an online application for free. You can send recurring e-mails as many or as few times as you want.

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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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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. That’s what The Weather Network is for. Home About Me Advertise Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up? No one wants you to report the weather.

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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 ? I personally have a preference for larger corporations, but do like the feel of a smaller business. A small company ?

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JULY 16, 2009

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JUNE 8, 2010

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JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Going Above and Beyond "Work" By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 Filed Under: Networking , Productivity D o you find yourself going into work day after day, week after week, feeling like you could do just a little more?

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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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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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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2007

By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, December 05, 2007 Filed Under: Client Service , Networking , Productivity D o you want to help your firm exceed in the business world? Home About Me Advertise Want to Blog About Your Work? Do you have a knack for writing?

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JULY 17, 2009

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JULY 10, 2009

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JULY 16, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Seminars for Professional Assistants By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Filed Under: Networking , Productivity A re you looking to improve your skills and catch up with the latest office trends ? Are you trying to get that raise or promotion that you so well deserve?

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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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OCTOBER 7, 2009

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