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A Great Outlook: Adding Holidays to Microsoft Outlook

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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 ? In the Calendar Options section, click Add Holidays.

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Working with the executive team

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If that is the case you will have even more phone calls, meetings and general engagement with other Directors and top-level members of staff. I have often supported additional Executives while their assistant is away on holiday. Don’t gossip, even if the gossip is really good!

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Blogging Here and There

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I also want to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Happy and Prosperous New Year! Wireless internet cafe are not very common, but people are asking for it day and night. Thus blogging is becoming the norm at these cafés. If you like this post, please subscribe to my feeds or get posts e-mailed directly to you.

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15 Tips for When You Need a Break From Work

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Set your cell phone alarm so you give yourself enough time to wake up, get out of the sleepy daze, and be functional when you return to your desk. If you're lucky, there's not a phone in the restroom or you're not expected to answer your cell phone from there. Don't gossip or share confidential things, but you get my point.

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Psst! I'm in a bad mood, pass it on.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I am sure after that call her husband got off the phone and kicked the dog or was cranky with a sales clerk at the grocery store. It ended up that the phone lines were down because of a thunderstorm in town and he had been trying to reach her since early that afternoon. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine."

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The importance of having someone to talk to

Laughing all the Way to Work

I can tell you my friends and colleagues got a lot of phone calls in those early days and it was a wonderful resource and help to me. The problem that sometimes occurs with sharing with current co-workers is it can turn into office gossip. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Full-time Freelance Writing Jobs | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Answer the phone now and then. If you turn white and get all knee-wobbly at the thought of picking up the phone and introducing yourself to a prospective client, keep your day job. Over the holidays, my husband had paid time off and I was still typing away. I have to admit that freelancing can get a little lonely.

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