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Imagine a scenario wherein you recently secured a job as the Secretary to the Director of a large private

firm that is constantly in correspondence with both domestic and foreign enterprises. Sadly, for three days
now, your boss has been inordinately displeased with your performance and is no longer confident with
your suitability for the office, because he now suspects you don't appear to be proficient in word processing
(who knows, probably his new girl friend who is a computer whiz-kid is already pestering him to take over
your office). Then, this fateful afternoon, your paranoid boss just storms into your cubicle, seriously
exasperated over your last work, and threatens to dismiss you if again you ever make such simple mistakes
in the content, layout, structure, and tone of the letters or any other official document he asks you to
create for him (the company, to be precise).

So, as the last chance to prove your skills, he hurriedly dictates a note and asks you to use it to create a
professional fax (which you have never created before) to be forwarded to a customer in London; and then
another note which you must use in a contemporary memo ( you don't even know how this one looks like),
notifying all the company's employees of an urgent meeting which is to hold the following day. He gives you
only thirty (30) minutes to submit the printed documents to his table.

In this situation, what would you do? Would you tell him you don't know how these documents look like or
how to create them? If you do that, boy, I bet your boss won't hesitate relieving you of your well-paid job
and replace you with, maybe, his girlfriend

But what would you do to impress your boss and to make him retain you. The simple answer is ,"you have
nothing to worry about". Why? Because, the General templates in Word are all there to guide you".

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