Document Filing Meeting Minutes 
Administrative Arts
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
You don’t indicate if you are talking about Board minutes or membership meeting minutes. According to every reference I can find for document retention, Board minutes should be kept permanently. I didn’t find any specific references to membership meeting minutes in any of the research I’ve done.
Practically Perfect PA
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Spend time reading through some of the emails I’ve filed over the last week, including LinkedIn updates and other networking emails. This takes 15 minutes of me running from one floor to the next until I manage to find him. Walking back to my desk one of my directors asks me to scan some documents for him.
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Laughing all the Way to Work
DECEMBER 17, 2008
Try to anticipate the need so you can have the file or the answer your boss needs, before he or she even knows they need it. A good assistant knows just where to find the document or file needed, or they won’t stop looking till they do. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct.
Laughing all the Way to Work
AUGUST 10, 2010
I have gotten in the habit of doing this frequently during the day and hardly even think about it until the system shuts down for some reason and then I breathe a sigh of relief when I open the document (by pressing Ctrl + o by the way) and find that I have not lost any of my work. Ctrl + a - Selects the whole document.
Practically Perfect PA
NOVEMBER 6, 2011
Most of the jobs are small but there are a lot of them, including booking rooms, answering email queries and setting up meetings. 1130 – One of the Directors comes out of the Board meeting to ask if I can photocopy some documents for him. It takes 10 minutes to photocopy the documents and take them to the Boardroom.
Laughing all the Way to Work
JULY 26, 2009
Recently I was working with someone on an Excel document. They sent an e-mail wondering if any of the assistants could help them export a document from Excel to Word. Unlike Word you will only see the header repeated when you do a print preview or print the document. Or if you want to attach a file, choose Attach File.
Office Dynamics
JUNE 27, 2012
The “oops” factor: If you need more than two paragraphs to cover your topic, you’re better off using the phone, or attaching a Word* file. Sometimes people feel that they need to send me every document at once. Getting a few items is fine – but who wants an email with a dozen files attached?”.
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