Workplace Insight

APRIL 22, 2024

In a similar way employees view Microsoft Office; AI is a digital tool that must be mastered for employees to be able to effectively do their jobs. We don’t fear Microsoft Word, we see it as an integral tool to getting our jobs done.

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All Things Admin

MARCH 6, 2024

For example, when we do webinars, there are things that happen before the webinar to set it up, tasks we need to perform the day of the event, and post-event procedures for adding the replay to our online training center. A system is a series of procedures that all work together to accomplish larger, more complex tasks and projects.

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Falling Behind on Your Follow-Ups? By The Professional Assistant on Monday, December 03, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity A re you falling behind on your follow-ups? Do you want to improve the efficiency of following up with clients? It was a life saver!

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Productivity Bits

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Here are my favorite reasons for making the switchless switch to Google Cloud Connect: Keep Your Favorite Microsoft Office Tools. By far the best thing about Google Cloud Connect is that you can keep Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Simple Synchronization.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Elevator Etiquette 101: Going Up? This, of course, can be a nightmare, since you could be walking up many flights. If you end up standing right near the buttons, people expect you to be the conductor.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Co-Workers Not Cleaning Up After Themselves? Do you get annoyed that you are always the one that has to clean up after them? Do you know of any other ways to get your staff members to clean up after themselves? Do you start wondering if they treat their own house the same way? right away. right away.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Power Up Your PowerPoint With Templates! By The Professional Assistant on Friday, October 10, 2008 Filed Under: MS-PowerPoint D o you want to change the way your Microsoft PowerPoint templates look? Do you feel that you could do a better job on these templates than what you have currently?

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Advertise 4 Steps to Setting up E-mail Distribution Lists By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, March 27, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity D o you find yourself having to write each persons e-mail address over and over again for certain e-mails ? All e-mail distribution lists are bolded.

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Karen Vivarelli

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Are you just getting started on your business journey and setting up your business foundations for the first time? If you want an easy to use spreadsheet to plug in your start-up costs, income and expenses you’ll want to check out my Financial Planning for your Business spreadsheet.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Here are some others I like: Ctrl End to get to the end of a document Ctrl Home to get to the top of a document Ctrl Shift End will highlight everything from that point down to the end of the document Ctrl Shift Home will highlight everything from that point up to the top of the document Ctrl a to highlight the whole document.

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Page Personnel

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Many candidates with free time or with some allowance from their employers have started to explore taking a few 3-5 day courses to either brush up on their skills or learn new IT skills in order to be more efficient. However, levels of competency and experience can vary greatly.

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Office Dynamics

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Using a cloud storage service will allow you to store files for easy access without having to take up precious tablet hard drive space. Soon even Microsoft Word will be available for tablets, so there is no excuse for not making the switch. For less important files, there''s a variety of options available to you.

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 26, 2007

Home About Me Advertise How to Create Mail Merge Letters By The Professional Assistant on Sunday, August 26, 2007 Filed Under: MS-Access , MS-Excel , MS-Outlook E ver have trouble doing a mail merge in Microsoft Word? Here, click on “Edit individual letters&# , then click “All&# and a new window will pop up.

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Worxbee

AUGUST 16, 2021

The best EAs are snapped up very quickly by some of the top employers and many companies have struggled to find talent when they need it. Make sure your profile is public This is just a quick check - many people don’t have their profiles set to “public” and have no idea they’re not showing up in recruiter searches!

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Step It Up VA Coaching

AUGUST 2, 2012

If you have Microsoft Word, an information product can be created as a PDF file. When was the last time you signed up for an email list that didn’t include some kind of giveaway, prize, or free offer? You can create them yourself. The content could even be based on a blog posts or an offshoot of marketing materials.

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Step It Up VA Coaching

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

If you have Microsoft Word, an information product can be created as a PDF file. When was the last time you signed up for an email list that didn’t include some kind of giveaway, prize, or free offer? You can do some research or take what you know now and put together a basic downloadable product in as little as a few hours.

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Admin Awards

APRIL 24, 2020

Terminology — Knowing the language of a particular business sector means an administrative assistant new to the company can keep up with and contribute to conversations in the workplace right from the start. Knowing how to use Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel is a given for any administrative assistant’s career.

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Professional Assistant Blog

JANUARY 18, 2008

You dont want people coming up to you, hovering and waiting for you to put down the phone for a few seconds to let them know that you are in a training session. Just right-click on the picture once you see it and click "Save Picture As…" If you prefer to create your own, just use Microsoft Word.

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 20, 2010

The ironic thing is though, as I typed that in Microsoft Word©, it didn’t have much of a problem with it either. Every bit of gibberish in the sentence at the beginning was an actual word and was completely ignored by my spell check. Well, that sentence didn’t make entirely too much sense, did it?

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Office Dynamics

JUNE 20, 2010

The ironic thing is though, as I typed that in Microsoft Word©, it didn’t have much of a problem with it either. Every bit of gibberish in the sentence at the beginning was an actual word and was completely ignored by my spell check. Well, that sentence didn’t make entirely too much sense, did it?

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Click on this and you will have the option to do the research right within application that you are using, such as Microsoft Word or Internet Explorer. The great part about Kallout is that a small window pops up within the application you’re currently using. Use any or all of these research options to your advantage.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Do they end up talking loud on the phone while you are trying to do some work? Are you being bombarded with people walking up to your cubicle and dont have the decency to see that you are busy? Heres an article I found on this issue, which shows quite a few peoples e-mails about some of these very problems.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Your boss calls you up and tells you that you need to add an agenda to this meeting, but you don’t want everyone to get the meeting request again and have to accept/decline it. To do this, open up your scheduled meeting in the calendar that you are using and click on “Forward as iCalendar&#. I'm going to try this.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Then a bunch of co-workers show up in costumes. Do you like to dress up in fancy or scary costumes for this occasion? Do you want to dress up at the office, but not sure what to wear or if you even can? You dont want to end up at work and be the only one wearing a costume. What are you dressing up as? What a sight!

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BMT Office Administration

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For instance, Asana and other programs offer Gantt charts, calendar views, and time-tracking, whereas Trello does not (unless you pay for power-ups, but more on that in a bit). They even break the templates up into categories, including: Business. Trello power-ups. What does Monday.com offer? Engineering. Many others.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 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?

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Professional Assistant Blog

AUGUST 13, 2008

Do you follow particular religious holidays, but arent showing up in your calendar? In this case, I dont have to worry about taking extra days off, since I dont really follow the religious holidays that I was brought up with, which in turn, are part of the regular holidays that come up each year.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

By The Professional Assistant on Thursday, February 21, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service , Meetings , Productivity Y ou’re walking around the office and someone comes up to you, asking for a pen. Home About Me Advertise Do You Have a Pen? You search your pockets and realize that you don’t have one. Has this ever happened to you?

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Your colleague or boss calls or comes up to you exactly 2 minutes later and asks if youve read it. 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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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

You can find instructions to setting up this software here and the software download page here. 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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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2009

You actually end up thinking that you are working harder, yet you are reducing your productivity by about 30%. Thats quite a bit of work that you could be catching up on throughout your day, each and every day. Then I would open up the applications associated with the next task. Believe it or not, this can lower productivity.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Home About Me Advertise Common Courtesy in the Workplace By The Professional Assistant on Monday, September 10, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Productivity D o you always end up cleaning up after your colleagues? Do you neatly put all labels, papers, etc. on the printer table and then a few minutes later, you come back to a messy area?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 1, 2008

The default language setting in Microsoft Word is American English. You would almost feel like standing up and putting your hand over your heart and saluting when you would see the commercial! Watch your Language - Settings! I AM CANADIAN! Well, at least in a Bob and Doug McKenzie, Great White North, sort of way.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Visit Travel Zoo for the most up-to-date best deals you can find on the internet. 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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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Cover Your Tracks: E-mail Archiving By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Productivity , System Security D o you back up your e-mails in Microsoft Outlook ? There are two ways of backing up your e-mails. Are you familiar with this?

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2007

Does your boss come up to you and ask you to find information on an e-mail that youve received and needs it yesterday? One of my colleagues asked me this same question a short while ago and she was very surprised to hear that there is an "Advanced Find" function on Microsoft Outlook. Then click on Options, Advanced Find.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

You can post up to 80 different job sites, such as Workopolis , Monster , CareerBuilder and many more, just with one submission. By The Professional Assistant on Monday, November 26, 2007 Filed Under: Job Seeking A re you worried about online identity theft online? Resume Rabbit will make all of this disappear.

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