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Metadata: What is it and why is it important for the assistant to know about it?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Some of Microsoft Office document's metadata can be seen by clicking File then Properties from the program's menu. The author of the Microsoft Word-based Melissa computer virus in 1999 was caught due to Word metadata that uniquely identified the computer used to create the original infected document.”

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

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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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The E-tiquette of E-mail

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) report that, “some 10 million American men – fully 7 percent of the male population – either cannot distinguish red from green, or see red and green differently from most people. Seeing Red Does it matter what colour of font you use in your e-mail? Watson Associates Inc.,

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Frustration Busters!

Laughing all the Way to Work

If you want to insert a fraction in Microsoft Word without going to Insert/Symbol, keep your Alt key depressed whilst keying in the following numbers on your number pad. July 30, 2009 Anonymoussaid. Alt0188 will give you the quarter symbol etc. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice.