Creating a Zip File
You need to e-mail a big file to a client, but it’s too big for either your or their e-mail limits. What do you do? Easy, you just compress the file and send it again. While once upon a time you needed to have 3rd party software like WinZip to compress files into a zip [...]
Make Your Documents Cleaner
One thing that I see over and over again, even from experienced Administrative Assistants, is badly aligned text. It might not look that bad on screen, but once you print out your document, it detracts from the overall look and professionalism that you want to project. The mistake that most make is using the space [...]
Understanding formatting in Microsoft Word
One question I often get from other Administrative Assistants is how to figure out why a document is doing something strange. Most of the time I find out they have formatted something without realizing it. Usually they are quite amazed that I figured out the issue, when all I did was turn on hidden symbols [...]


