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The Microsoft® Crabby Office Lady Tells It Like It Is: Secrets to Surviving Office Life 1st Edition

by Annik Stahl (Author)
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
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We all have to work for a living—so why not make that time work for you? Whether you’re in a cubicle or corner office, the Crabby Office Lady shows you how to be more productive on the job so that you can really enjoy your time off the job. Humorous but practical, the lovable know-it-all reveals her secrets in this easy-to-read survival guide based on her popular column. You’ll get her no-nonsense lessons to succeeding at work, as well as tips and tricks for working with Microsoft Office programs to help simplify your life. She’ll give you the straight scoop—so pay attention!

Crabby says, “Listen up!”—and discover how to:

  • Manage your daily barrage of email, run effective meetings, and delegate (you might actually get some work done)
  • Mind your workplace manners (and learn to deal with those who don’t)
  • Use Crabby’s secrets for preparing for performance reviews and building your case for raises
  • Customize Office program settings, use accessibility features, and practice healthy ergonomics to make your office your own
  • Decode convoluted computer terms
  • Take the stress out of fleeing—and enjoy your time off—with Crabby’s get-away-from-it-all checklist
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  1. ISBN-10
    0735622728
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0735622722
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Microsoft Press
  5. Publication date
    June 17, 2006
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7.38 x 0.61 x 9.25 inches
  8. Print length
    208 pages
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Key Book Benefits: - Written by the popular Crabby Office Lady, who gives straightforward, no-nonsense advice for surviving office life - Covers a we range of practical topics from minding your email manners to surviving a performance review to proper ergonomics - Ideal for anyone working in an office environment

About the Author

In 2002, Annik Stahl, a Microsoft employee, wanted to reach out to Microsoft Office customers in a more personal, friendly way. She created the grumpy but charming character of the Crabby Office Lady, whose column is read by more than 250,000 people every month. By fashioning Crabby as the ultimate “power user” with advice to share, Annik helps her readers be more efficient at work so that they can get away from their desks and get on with their lives.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Microsoft Press; 1st edition (June 17, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0735622728
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0735622722
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.38 x 0.61 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

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3.9 out of 5 stars
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Charles Stanley
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical Survival
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2006
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Annik Stahl has penned a readable, practical and humourous account of office life with strategies to survive and even enjoy the workplace. Numerous hints and techniques for dealing with everyday life situations engage the reader while providing laugh-out-loud insights to not only enhance your use of Microsoft Office, but to deal with and understand your office mates, as well.
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Pragmatic Pal
2.0 out of 5 stars The MS Crabby Office Lady - Kindergarden stuff
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2007
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Far too basic for the money spent on buying this title.
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Pam
3.0 out of 5 stars VP view
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2006
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I enjoyed the persona and some of the tips, but most of this is pretty basic stuff
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Philip Stahl
5.0 out of 5 stars THE CRABBY OFFICE LADY
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2006
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The CRABBY OFFICE LADY should be near every computer. I like the humor and verbiage used to solve problems in such non scientific language.

PLS
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B. Shefrin
4.0 out of 5 stars Priceless Tool!
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2006
After seeing Ms. Crabby's video clips and seeing her speak at a presentation, I had to get the book. It's a priceless office tool! Especially useful to me on a weekly basis is the section on the Top 10 email crabs! Although written with humor, the points are well-taken and we can all learn a thing or two about appropriate email etiquette.
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Andre P. Ratkai
5.0 out of 5 stars A Worthwhile Tool for Office Dwellers
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2006
The Crabby Office Lady provides a great deal of helpful information to help you make office life more tolerable and, hopefully, productive. The section on e-mail etiquette is my favorite, as I see worst abuses of language and common sense come through in e-mails. What ever happened to business manners? Crabby can't anser that, but she provides lots of good advice to make sure you don't look like a clueless dunce to your fellow workers and colleagues.

This is a book full of practical tools, things you can put to use tomorrow. She treads the happy median between helping you think in big picture terms ("how to go on vacation") and providing just enough detail in terms of using Microsoft Office to accomplish the big picture. The book doesn't get bogged down in detail--the F1 key can give you plenty of that.

Finally, Crabby has the right balance of drill sargent and self-deprecation to make you realize that she has learned this stuff the hard way. She brings you along with her conversational prose, and before you know it you have learned something. We can all benefit by taking away tidbits from this book, and make Office work for US.

I am buying a half-dozen more books to give away to business colleagues.

AR
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John Matlock
5.0 out of 5 stars Humor from Microsoft -- Unbelievable
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2006
One of the things that Microsoft has done exceedingly well is promote the use of their software at all levels of business. Perhaps the most important realization that started the Crabby Office Lady was the understanding that the public's view of Microsoft was not of a humor oriented friendly company.

In the winter of 2001 when the overall Microsoft web pressence was being changed, Crabby was born. She's now five years old and has a weekly readership of something over 250,000. Now her collected wisdom has been published in this book. It's a hilarious book.

Underneath the humor there's a great deal of useful information about the use of Microsoft Office. Here is not the deatiled instructions, you can get that out of the manual, but here are hints and tips that make the office (your office, not the software) package work and get along better. It's a useful book.
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C. Dart
5.0 out of 5 stars The Stand-Up Comedian of Computers
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2006
My Gosh! What an hilarious book! I could barely stay atop my ergodynamic seat when reading Stahl's Crabby Office Lady. It is too funny and quite insightful as well. Not only are we learning some great shortcuts and know-hows to put under our belt, which are easy to understand and implement, but the humor is infectious. I have so enjoyed telling both my colleagues and friends about it. In fact, some of my friends that are not in the computer world, including my parents, have taken to reading her weekly column. They now email me with her suggestions and, of course, her intelligent humor. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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