The Microsoft Crabby Office Lady Tells It Like It Is: Secrets to Surviving Office Life [Paperback]

Annik Stahl (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 14, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0735622728 | ISBN-13: 978-0735622722 | Edition: 1

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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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, wanting find a way to reach out to Microsoft Office customers in a more personal, friendly way, Annik Stahl, a Microsoft employee, created the grumpy but loveable character of the Crabby Office Lady. By fashioning Crabby as the ultimate "power user" willing to share her expertise (thereby reducing the frustrations of Office customers), Annik’s goal has always been to make her readers more efficient at their work so that they can get up out of their chairs and get on with their lives.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (June 14, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735622728
• ISBN-13: 978-0735622722
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #666,580 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Stand-Up Comedian of Computers, September 18, 2006

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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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Humor from Microsoft -- Unbelievable, September 30, 2006

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE CRABBY OFFICE LADY, September 6, 2006

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Philip Stahl "pls" (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Microsoft Crabby Office Lady Tells It Like It Is: Secrets to Surviving Office Life (Paperback)

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