• Maintain your diary
• Deal with incoming email and faxes
• Do background research and present findings
• Type up documents such as letters, agendas, reports and manuals
• Transcribe recorded interviews or audio dictation
• Organise meetings and events
• Ensure you are well prepared for meetings with your own material and with background info on participants
• Set up and maintain office systems such as customer relationship management
• Recruitment admin from placing the job advert to arranging interviews
• Arrange travel and accommodation and give you a report of restaurants, attractions etc. in the area
• Format documents, photocopy, scan and bind documents
• Prepare PowerPoint presentations and handouts
• Proofread and edit your documents
• Make phone calls on your behalf
• Draft letters or design document templates
• Invoice your clients/customers
• Sort through your e-mail, weed out the spam and prioritize your messages
• Reply to emails on your behalf
• Set up and update your business blog
• Submit articles and press releases to media online and off
• Set up online office space
• Make appointments (not cold calling)
• Update your status and profile on various social media sites
• Research suppliers, business events and grants
• Convert documents to PDF
• Organise a direct mail campaign
• Create a prospective list of contacts ready for cold calling
• Select and organise corporate entertainment
• Update your website content
• Manage your online sales

It’s sometimes quicker to use the shortcut keys if you’re typing a document in Word so here are ten that I use often.  They’re available in Microsoft 2002, 2003 and 2007.

If you have any favourite shortcut keys why not post them here.