Secretarial skills

[fivemack]

I have demonstrated that it takes a PhD mathematician an hour and three quarters, also five sheets of expensive label-printing card and three of normal paper, to prepare two dozen name badges.

The secret is to print on normal paper, then hold the thing up to the light with a sheet of expensive card behind it to check that the text on the cards fits entirely within the perforations. One might have thought that Word could, knowing the size of the cards as it does, refrain from resizing the cells in the table it makes to hold the names to a size other than that of the cards; but one would have thought this in error.

If there is to be a company logo on the bottom of the cards, it is on the side of smallness that the dimensioning of the table cells should err, since if the logo spans two cards, it makes both of them worthless. Word, naturally, errs by default in the other direction.

I get this feeling that temping may not be for me.

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

That's not too bad, actually. And next time you'll have different problems everything will go much more efficiently. I used to do a lot of mail-merge-onto-funny-shaped-things.

[aendr.livejournal.com]

Use Publisher :-) But always do the normal paper thing first.

[naath.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose your company wants to hire someone (me) to do such things?

I'm afraid not

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

The company has nine employees in total, of which, as the newest and least-qualified, I was the one selected to make name badges. Name badges need to be made only annually, we can all operate the espresso machine, and the company's small enough that things like the payroll and the accounts are dealt with by the Founder.