Make No Mistakes With Meeting Request Attachments in Outlook 2007
on Nov 20, 2009 in Meetings Office Trends MS-Outlook You sent a meeting request to a bunch of people. 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. Trust me, people start...

Administrative Procedures Manual - Does Your Department Need One?
on Nov 19, 2009 in Client Service Productivity Organize MS-Excel Office Trends MS-Access MS-PowerPoint MS-Word MS-Outlook Does your department have an administrative procedures manual? Do you find that your staff are not being consistent with their memos, e-mails, the way they answer the phone, etc.? I worked in quite a few firms, small and large, but my current one i...

Increasing Microsoft Excel 2007's Formula Bar Size
on Nov 18, 2009 in Productivity MS-Excel Do you find that trying to either write or fix formulas in Microsoft Excel can be a pain? Do you wish that you could expand the size of the formula bar to see more of the formula that you are working on? I remember back in the day when Microsoft Exc...

Using Your Mail Trays Correctly
on Nov 18, 2009 in Productivity Organize Office Trends Prioritize Having trouble figuring out how to use your mail tray? Can't quite figure out how to get organized on how many you need and how you will use each one of them? I have seem some people at my office only use 1 mail tray, as their inbox. Others have qui...

Feeling Overwhelmed by the Mess on Your Desk? Fear Not!
on Nov 16, 2009 in Productivity Organize Office Trends Prioritize Do you have a large pile of papers on your desk? Is your desk disorganized and full of clutter? Do you feel that your mail tray's inbox keeps getting fed with more and more paper? Don't worry, you're not alone. You wouldn't believe how many people c...

What Topics Would You Like Me to Cover?
on Nov 13, 2009 in Productivity Office Trends Research Networking Do you want to get your voice heard? Are there any questions that you might have but are afraid to ask? I have been blogging for the last 2 years now (on and off, as you can tell) and have provided mounds of information to all of you during this tim...

Adhering to the "Closed Door" Policy
on Nov 11, 2009 in Productivity Office Trends Do you find that you get disturbed around your cubicle because of excessive noise? Do you wish that you could build walls around your cubicle just so that people would keep quiet? I wrote a post entitled "Adhering to the 'Open Door' Policy", but th...

British Airways Flight Sale - Until November 19, 2009!
on Nov 11, 2009 in Meetings Travel Does your manager fly quite a bit? Do you feel that you could get better airfare deals and service than what your current carrier offers? If you travel to Britain, this post is for you. My sister-in-law has been travelling with British Airways quite...

Dealing With Difficult Clients - Professional Advice For Professional Assistants!
on Nov 9, 2009 in Meetings Client Service Productivity Office Trends Do you get clients that are particularly rude towards you? Do you get e-mails or phone calls where they start complaining about something, yet you know that it's not your fault? I am 99% sure that this has happened to you at some point in your life.

4 Easy Steps To Setting Your Microsoft Word Language Default
on Nov 6, 2009 in Productivity Office Trends MS-Word Do you reside in a country that is outside of the US? Do you keep using the English - US spell checker in Microsoft Word, but can't figure out how to change it and make something else the default? This happened to one of my colleagues. He was going...