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APRIL 1, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Productivity With Shared Files By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Word , Organize , Productivity D o you share your files with others in your firm? Can you think of any other productive and efficient ways to make this happen?

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

Home About Me Advertise "Stop Watch"ing Your Productivity By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you multi-task too much? This should help your productivity not just at work but at home as well. Whats next?

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Home About Me Advertise How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 Filed Under: Office Gossip , Productivity D o you find that some of your co-workers can be extremely annoying, rude or just plain inconsiderate? This happens to the best of us all of the time.

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OCTOBER 13, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Macros: Shortcuts To Productivity With Microsoft Word By The Professional Assistant on Monday, October 13, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Word , Productivity D o you know what a macro is? Do you wish that your life could be a little more productive and be able to use a few shortcuts to get through your tasks?

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FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Want to be More Productive? By The Professional Assistant on Friday, February 29, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity A re you a Virtual/ Professional Assistant or want to become one? Now you can show your boss that you are finding ways to be more productive and a team player.

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AUGUST 23, 2007

Home About Me Advertise How to Organize Tasks Effectively By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, August 23, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize A task here, a task there! The question is, “How do I prioritize and organize my tasks? When does it ever end? Well, you are not alone.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2007

Home About Me Advertise A Better Cup of Coffee to be More Productive! By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 29, 2007 Filed Under: Productivity D o you feel like you need a coffee fix every day? People that drink better coffee "feel" that they are becoming more productive and hence work better throughout the day.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Home About Me Advertise Increasing Microsoft Excel 2007s Formula Bar Size By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Filed Under: MS-Excel , Productivity D o you find that trying to either write or fix formulas in Microsoft Excel can be a pain?

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JULY 7, 2010

By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, July 07, 2010 Filed Under: MS-Excel , Productivity Y our boss calls you over to their office and asks that you send her a list of something that you’ve created in Microsoft Excel. Home About Me Advertise Need to Change Excel Details from Vertical to Horizontal or Vice Versa?

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, October 07, 2009 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity D o you have too many applications open on your computer? Believe it or not, this can lower productivity. You actually end up thinking that you are working harder, yet you are reducing your productivity by about 30%.

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MARCH 6, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 06, 2008 Filed Under: Job Seeking , Meetings , Office Gossip , Productivity H ave you had or are in a situation where your colleague is making your life miserable? Really she makes my work day miserable and yet is rewarded for her bad behaviour, chronic tardiness and gossiping.

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OCTOBER 8, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity A re you the type of person that comes into the office each and every day, thinking that its just going to be another boring day, nothing changes and its always the same thing day in and day out? Home About Me Advertise Break The Routine, Inspire Yourself!

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JUNE 8, 2010

By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, June 08, 2010 Filed Under: Meetings , MS-Outlook , Productivity D o you have trouble trying to book several managers’ meetings, yet you have access to their calendars in Microsoft Outlook 2007? Home About Me Advertise Overlapping Calendars In Microsoft Outlook?

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JULY 16, 2009

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, July 16, 2009 Filed Under: Productivity A re you a big fan of Windows XP? How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Most Irritating Habits of Co-Workers By The Professional Assistant on Monday, November 19, 2007 Filed Under: Productivity D o you find yourself among co-workers that are not respectful of your privacy? Are you being bombarded with people walking up to your cubicle and dont have the decency to see that you are busy?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Dos and Donts of Office Romance By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, September 20, 2007 Filed Under: Office Gossip , Productivity H ave you ever had an office romance with someone? The disadvantages: Gossip will start around the rumour mill quite quickly and have to try to keep it to yourselves.

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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DECEMBER 31, 2007

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, December 31, 2007 Filed Under: Meetings , Office Gossip , Productivity A re your co-workers annoying you at work by talking to loudly? Home About Me Advertise Co-Workers Annoying You? Do you wish you could take a fog horn and toot it around, just so that they would quiet down?

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JULY 17, 2009

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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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. Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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JULY 10, 2009

Home About Me Advertise "Going Green" With Your Documents By The Professional Assistant on Monday, July 13, 2009 Filed Under: Productivity D o you recycle your unwanted papers at work? Do you try to "go green" by not printing e-mails or other documents that you could be e-mailing to others that you want to share this information with?

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Me Advertise Dealing With Unreasonable Requests By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, October 08, 2009 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity Y ou receive an e-mail , among the many others that you receive each and every day. You dont want your productivity to start falling.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Home About Me Advertise 11 Tips To Improve Your Performance By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 08, 2007 Filed Under: Office Gossip , Productivity A re you asking yourself, “How can I improve my workplace?&# Avoid people that gossip, you will only get yourself deeper into negativity. Expand your mind.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Friday, February 15, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , Organize , Productivity Y our boss comes to your cubicle and asks you to make 10 copies of 5 different sets of publications. Home About Me Advertise Got A Large Print Job From Your Boss? Not Sure What To Do?

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AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Advertise A Great Outlook: Adding Holidays to Microsoft Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize D o you often wonder how you can add your countrys holidays into your calendar in Microsoft Outlook ?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2007

By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 Filed Under: Ergonomics , Productivity D o you find yourself typing too much? Heres a product that will help you feel better and relieve pain, carpal tunnel syndrome and repetitive stress injury. Home About Me Advertise Hands Hurt From Typing? Using the mouse too often?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 19, 2009 Filed Under: Client Service , MS-Access , MS-Excel , MS-Outlook , MS-PowerPoint , MS-Word , Organize , Productivity D oes your department have an administrative procedures manual? One of my readers asks: The organization I work for has no administrative procedure manual.

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AUGUST 21, 2008

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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MARCH 10, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, March 10, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by James of Organize IT. Then yesterday I came across a similar post , claiming that the pursuit of productivity has ended up out of control.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Sync Your Hand Held Device By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, November 15, 2007 Filed Under: Networking , Organize , Productivity , Travel A re you looking for software that can synchronize most of your hand held devices? Heres a free piece of software that was recently released that can do just that.

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JANUARY 18, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Do Not Disturb - Training In Progress By The Professional Assistant on Friday, January 18, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Meetings , Productivity D o you get staff members coming to you for all sorts of questions? Are you the main contact in your department? When youre on a phone call, do people hover over you?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Filed Under: Prioritize , Productivity D o you need extra help with your workload ? Home About Me Advertise Overworked? Unload Your Workload to a Freelancer! Do you feel overwhelmed by the number of tasks that keep getting piled on your desk like a never ending mountain of files?

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OCTOBER 27, 2008

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

How to Organize Tasks Effectively How to Deal with Inconsiderate Co-Workers Resizing Pictures in Microsoft Word 4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One? Converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates © Content by Richard Rinyai 2007-2010

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JULY 24, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Prioritization: A Colorful Outlook By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, July 24, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D o you receive quite a bit of e-mail in your Inbox each day, but have trouble prioritizing them? Click on Using Colors.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 22, 2008 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity A re you asked to make reservations for your manager(s) at particular restaurants? Home About Me Advertise Restaurant Reservations - Find An Open Table Online! Do you feel that you could be doing this faster?

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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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