Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 10, 2010

If you are a Lotus Notes user, this long-awaited document is for you! Great tips and tricks for productive use of the To Do’s, Calendar, Email, Contacts, and more. A 35 page step-by-step manual for optimizing Notes as a personal productivity tool.

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Ian's Messy Desk

AUGUST 25, 2010

Have a Centralized Calendar. A family calendar can help you track what is going on for all family members. Determine what documents you need for school registration. They don’t want to think about school a day earlier than necessary. Here are some tips to prepare home and family for getting into the back-to-school groove.

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Ian's Messy Desk

MAY 26, 2010

Record meeting information on your calendar, then toss the memo. We you receive document revisions, toss the orginals. Toss out anything you no longer need. Don’t keep routine memos or anything that gives you information you already know or have.

Management 100

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The Office Professionals Place

JANUARY 21, 2010

Now Google can help you do things like…… Google Docs – Create and share your online documents, presentations and spreadsheets Google Voice - Don’t have time to listen to voicemails? I even look forward to the different holiday themes that the word ‘Google’ will have on the search engine page.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 30, 2010

It doesn’t matter whether you use an electronic document system like Eric Mack , or a shoe box in your closet: if you can’t retrieve the information when you need it, the system is not effective. My mother has gotten things done by using heavily annotated paper calendars.

Ergonomics 100

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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. Lets enjoy our day together.©

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP Meeting Minutes Google 100

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 7, 2012

Tech glitches happen all the time and 2 people controlling one person's calendar is not the easiest thing. Where will you get flowers, baby gifts, birthday cakes, catered lunch, a venue for the holiday party, wine, a list of all the hot restaurants in town? Don't forget about official, company, school, and religious holidays.

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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. These are instructions for Word 2003. "I

Time Zones 100

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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. Unlike Word you will only see the header repeated when you do a print preview or print the document. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine."

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Time Zones IAAP 2009 International 100

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. Excellent material!

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Even with the ability to search for these files being at our fingertips there’s often going to be duplicate files, revisions of documents, and other naming discrepancies that can get in your way despite all of your efforts to avoid that. And now is the time to fix that. This is going to take the longest for most folks.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 15, 2009

I then put the items in a two-fold file folder with his calendar printed out on the one side and the items he will need for the day on the other side. For paper things that I need to remember to follow up on, I put the letter or document in my Wait Bin (which is a tray for things I am waiting on). Where can I put this paper?

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP International Meeting Minutes 100

Get Organized!

AUGUST 25, 2009

Nope, I’m not talking about the holidays. 1) Mark your calendar. This is a simple way to show your children the importance of certain papers and being able to retrieve those documents if necessary. But before you start daydreaming about your hard-earned respite, lets get organized. 3) Ready, set, go!

2009 40

2009 Holidays Calendars 2010 40

Laughing all the Way to Work

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. I gave at the office Calendar "ah ha" Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog What ever happened to the "us" in Service? Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Excellent material!

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP 2009 International 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 12, 2009

INCOMING MAIL: As with e-mail, you should read the letter to see if there are any action items for your boss (or yourself) and diarize them or put the appropriate dates in the calendar. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP International 2009 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 1, 2009

Now dont forget to put the correct year on your documents. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. I gave at the office Calendar "ah ha" Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog What ever happened to the "us" in Service? Lets enjoy our day together.© 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 29, 2009

Proofing documents can also be funny. I am on holidays right now, but am always interested in what others are doing. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. What a start to a Monday morning. Excellent material!

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP Holidays 2009 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 29, 2009

Of course my comments are limited because the subject matter is not my expertise, but he relies on my input and corrections to make the document look good. If there are any deadlines or appointments, put them in your boss’s calendar or task list with appropriate reminders. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine."

Management 100

Management Time Zones IAAP 2009 100

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. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. I gave at the office Calendar "ah ha" Introducing The Administrative Bloopers Blog What ever happened to the "us" in Service?

Time Zones 100

Time Zones Filing IAAP 2008 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 29, 2009

In this new age of not doing anything more than a quick spell check on documents, make sure you do not have any spelling mistakes in your resume. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S. Excellent material!

Time Zones 100

Time Zones Resume IAAP Interviewing 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 24, 2009

spacing To insert a document i.d. or a filename path to your document Insert Footer, Edit Footer On Insert Tab, click on drop down menu for Quick Parts. Then open a new document and paste (Ctrl v). To print the entire screen, press the PrintScreen key and then paste it into a blank document. Choose Field.

2007 100

2007 Time Zones IAAP 2003 100

Allwork

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And in the time that you have to travel at basically the craziest time, spring break, winter holidays, summer holidays. I imagine tech tools and documented processes would help to ease those challenges a little bit. So, you need to create that on your calendar. Jo Meunier [00:04:07] Expensive! .

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Laughing all the Way to Work

AUGUST 10, 2010

I have gotten in the habit of doing this frequently during the day and hardly even think about it until the system shuts down for some reason and then I breathe a sigh of relief when I open the document (by pressing Ctrl + o by the way) and find that I have not lost any of my work. Ctrl + a - Selects the whole document.

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Keyboards Time Zones IAAP PowerPoint 100

Ian's Messy Desk

JULY 28, 2010

Add dated or calendar items to a tickler file system or a diary as soon as they arrive. The trick for any of them is to learn to use MULTIPLE TAGS so that you can find them, otherwise – for example, your searches will pull up a thousand documents with the word ‘HTML’ in them.

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Ian's Messy Desk

JUNE 16, 2010

For example, if we have to deliver a document at an office and collect a document from another office which is on the same block, both these tasks can be done together. A calendar is the easiest place to track such a list. 3) A to-do list lets you coordinate similar tasks A to-do list helps us to avoid repetition of labour.

2008 100

2008 Ergonomics Health Holidays 100

Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 19, 2009

Meeting documents: some people have it printed single sided and others double sided. It is very hard to follow along when not all members have the document printed the same way. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Holidays (Public) in Canada and the United States Canadian Holidays U.S.

Time Zones 100

Time Zones IAAP 2009 International 100

Andrea Kalli

AUGUST 12, 2010

Ideas could include: - shoe care tips - announce/review shoe care products - shoe storage ideas - things to think about when purchasing shoes - a different post on shoe ideas for every holiday, season, or special occasion.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

It took around 45 minutes top, including reading the documentation and writing the code. Frustration Level (0 – 100) 50 – This time the frustration source wasn’t the lack of knowledge (or usable documentation) but my own decisions on how the interface should look. There are tons of documentations available on the net.

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