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Oh where or where is my password?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Along with our multiple work passwords, we have a password for our home computer, and if we sign up for Facebook, Twitter or any other website, we have another password to remember. I keep mine in an encrypted Word file on my computer. Servers are usually backed up daily, so your file will likely be restored. Works so far!

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Anyone can be an Administrative Assistant, right?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Try to anticipate the need so you can have the file or the answer your boss needs, before he or she even knows they need it. A good assistant knows just where to find the document or file needed, or they won’t stop looking till they do. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct.

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Routine Procedure – Monday

Practically Perfect PA

It was a quiet day in the office and I’m not sure how the routine will fair tomorrow when all of my Directors are in and out of meetings and I have a few scheduled for myself as well. Follow me on twitter @PracticalPA. Filed under: Uncategorized.

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Routine Procedure – Thursday

Practically Perfect PA

Spend time reading through some of the emails I’ve filed over the last week, including LinkedIn updates and other networking emails. Filed under: Motivation. It is fairly quiet this morning so it seems a good time to finish the slide deck for HR. I’ve managed to finish the slide deck without any interruptions.

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Grrr! moments

Laughing all the Way to Work

At one office I worked in we had a mail cart with slots for everyones mail, but it was filed First name, Last name. the phone book, standard filing practices etc.) This goes for filing and also how your contacts are ordered in Outlook. If you open the contact card you will see in the first section File As.

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Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys

Laughing all the Way to Work

Ctrl + Home moves the cursor to the beginning of the open file or document and Ctrl + End moves the cursor to the end of the open file or document, but if you are in the middle of a document and want to select everything from there down, press Ctrl + Shift + End or if you want to select everything from there up, press Ctrl + Shift + Home.

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Routine Procedure – Friday

Practically Perfect PA

1725 – Finish all of the tasks given to me by the directors and spend the last five minutes of the day checking my emails one last time before I leave for the day. Filed under: Uncategorized. It will be great to be ahead of myself when I come into the office on Monday. 1730 – Finish the day and head off for a well needed drink!

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