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How to Plan a Working Vacation

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MAY 3, 2023

Prep for your working vacation Inform any partners, clients and colleagues of your travel plans and only commit to the most important meetings while you are away. Fischer-Rosenthal also recommends booking refundable accommodations and services whenever possible, just in case your travel plans change with short notice.

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12 Last-Minute Gift Ideas For Digital Nomads

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DECEMBER 23, 2022

Having lots of bulky baggage is not ideal when you’re trying to travel light, so gifting experiences, digital gifts, or small items is ideal. . Small, portable gifts like a travel adaptor or chic and practical laptop stand make great tangible presents for any occasion. . Wireless travel massage pillow .

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Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook

Professional Assistant Blog

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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Using Subtotals Function in Microsoft Excel

Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 30, 2008

The spreadsheet might contain other types of data, but is similar to this example? checked (in this example). Imagine your boss comes to your desk and asks you to provide him/her with details of how much each firm earned in revenue on this spreadsheet. You think to yourself, how can I do this quickly, without much manual work?

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Prioritization: A Colorful Outlook

Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 24, 2008

For example, I receive an e-mail from my direct supervisor. No, you are not making your screen more lively - well, if thats what you are intending to do, then go ahead. When e-mails come in and you have set up your colors, you will notice that you have prioritized them by color. Then I have my faxes set up as green.

2008

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Calculation of Discounts in Excel

Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 21, 2007

Here is how to calculate the difference between two numbers as a percentage: For example, your earnings are $2,342 in November and $2,500 in December. It kept providing me topics that werent relevant to the particular answer I was looking for. I then checked Excels help file and there it was.

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Opening Microsoft Office 2007 Files in Microsoft Office XP

Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 9, 2008

For example, if I have Microsoft Excel XP and would like to send a file to a client that only has Microsoft Excel 97 (which was a horrible disaster for Microsoft, since there were quite a few bugs in this version), you could save the file as a Microsoft Excel 97 version. I remember in the past that you can always downgrade files.

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Break The Routine, Inspire Yourself!

Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2008

F or example, if you want to make a million dollars before you die, write out exactly what you want and how you will achieve this. Another thing that helps people to get motivated is by writing some sort of mantra on a piece of paper or printing it out. This way, when you sit down, you can read it each and every day.

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"Stop Watch"ing Your Productivity

Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Virtual Stopwatch gives you the option to set a predetermined amount of time. For example, you want to spend one hour on a particular project. When the hour has passed, a pop up window will show telling you that your time is up. To avoid this, try using an online timer instead.

2008

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To-Do or Not To-Do? Taking Your To-Do List to the Next Level!

Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 29, 2008

Move all of the other tasks to the next day or time that you can tackle them. Next, add a time frame to each task. For example, I will try to work on task A for 1 hour. This will keep your project/goal in a manageable time frame, where you know how much time will be left once youve accomplished these tasks.

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4 Steps to Setting up E-mail Distribution Lists

Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 27, 2008

For example, if I need to send out a newsletter to all clients, I would call it "Newsletter" At this point, you would just start up a new e-mail, click on the "To:" button and select "Newsletter" from your address book. Add New, of course, would be used to add a brand new contact.

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Outsourcing - Good or Bad?

Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Heres an example of what happened with me. The downfall of outsourcing is that youre not sure if the quality of the work will be presented, since you are relying one someone or a company to do the work for you and might not be to your standards. Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

2007

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Write An Effective Out Of Office Assistant Message

Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 4, 2008

For example: Advertising inquiries, please contact John Doe at john.doe@company.com Billing inquiries, please contact Jane Smith at jane.smith@company.com And so on and so forth. I appreciate your example. And lastly, don’t forget to turn it on. Thanks, Richard Posted on 23 September, 2008 10:40 AM Delilah Thanks for the tip.

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Is Your Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Explain to him that youre in a situation where you feel unproductive and give some examples. I usually follow up ever 3 business days on outstanding items. Another thing that I can suggest is to have a meeting with your boss. M ention him that you are here to help in any way you can. Remind him that this is why he hired you.

2008

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 20, 2008

Some examples would be managing a company website, creating, editing and writing a company newsletter or creating promotional materials, invitations and brochures for marketing events. This can be a rewarding career change for those suited to this type of work. Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

2008

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Outlook Rules That Rule

Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 22, 2008

Some e-mails are useful, but I don’t always have time to deal with them right away. Here is an example of some sub-folders and rules that I have set up that would work for a work e-mail or home account: I now send my subscribed feeds to a sub-folder that I can look at when I have the time.

2008

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Clock In The Right Time Zone: Booking Meetings in Microsoft Outlook

Using Subtotals Function in Microsoft Excel

Prioritization: A Colorful Outlook

Calculation of Discounts in Excel

Opening Microsoft Office 2007 Files in Microsoft Office XP

Break The Routine, Inspire Yourself!

"Stop Watch"ing Your Productivity

To-Do or Not To-Do? Taking Your To-Do List to the Next Level!

4 Steps to Setting up E-mail Distribution Lists

Outsourcing - Good or Bad?

Write An Effective Out Of Office Assistant Message

Is Your Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Outlook Rules That Rule

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