Administrative Arts - Tips for the Administrative Assistant

Today I’m revisiting an old Ask the Admin question from 2011.  Why? Because I’m constantly learning new things. This question came from Stan:
I have a shared public calendar in Outlook 2007. Can I set it to notify sharing users of changed appointments?...

I was just reading an article at Office Ninjas about Journaling in the Workplace. It’s a good post and well worth reading. Be sure to follow her links, they’re quite interesting. It made me think of an experience I had a few years ago.
I was working at a small non-profit (the home of wearing many hats). I had system admin duties as well as working as the Executive Assistant. I had been tasked with finding a certain file containing a memo that no one could remember who wrote. It required...

Today we have an interesting question from Heather:
My Question is: how do you word your response on the telephone and make your boss look available when they are out of the office on vacation?
Thank you for your assistance!

I will be writing some posts especially for beginners in the clerical field. Helpful tips and what to learn to progress in an administrative career. These will be posted to the category For Beginners and will include For Beginners in the title.
For those just starting out in the clerical field, I cannot stress enough working on your keyboarding skills. Many secretarial and administrative assistant jobs will require typing at a rate of 50 words per minute or higher. The only way to attain and...