A secretary is either an administrative assistant in business office administration,

or a certain type of mid- or high-level governmental position, such as a Secretary of State.

The office title refers to a person who performs administrative or personal tasks for a superior. The executive

secretary (sometimes called administrative associate) is responsible for a myriad of responsibilities.

Originally when there were only typewriters the secretary spent much of the time typing handwritten

documents into typed form and photocopying.

Mail merge is a software function describing the production of multiple (and potentially large numbers of)

documents from a single template form and a structured data source. This technique is typically used to

create personalised letters and pre-addressed envelopes or mailing labels for mass mailings from a

database mailing list of names and addresses.

The procedure of mail merging is typically carried out using a word processing programme The template is a

word processing document which contains fixed text, which will be the same in each output document, and

variables, which act as placeholders that are replaced by text from the data source. The data source is

typically a spreadsheet or a Database which has a field or column matching each variable in the template.

When the mail merge is run, the word processing system creates an output document for each row in the

database, using the fixed text exactly as it appears in the template, but substituting the data variables in the

template with the values from the matching columns.

A laminate is a material constructed by uniting two or more layers of material together. The process of creating a laminate is lamination, which in common parlance refers to sandwiching something between layers of plastic and sealing them with heat and/or pressure, usually with an adhesive.

(also known as DTP) combines a personal computer and page layout software to create publication document on a computer for either large scale publishing or small scale local economical multifunction peripheral output and distribution. Users create page layouts with text, graphics, photos and other visual elements using software such as Quark X Press and (to some extent) any graphics software or word processor that combines editable text with images. For small jobs a few copies of a publication might be printed on a local printer. For larger jobs a computer file can be sent to a vendor for high-volume printing.

The term "desktop publishing" is commonly used to describe page layout skills. However, the skills and software are not limited to paper and books. The same skills and software are often used to create graphics for promotional items.

Is the process of communicating visually using typography and images to present information. Graphic design practice embraces a range of cognitive skills, aesthetics and crafts, including typography, visual arts and page layout. Like other forms of design, graphic design often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created and the products (designs) which are generated.

A spreadsheet is a rectangular table (or grid) of information, often financial information. The word came from "spread" in its sense of a newspaper or magazine item (text and/or graphics) that covers two facing pages, extending across the centre fold and treating the two pages as one large one. The compound word "spread-sheet" came to mean the format used to present bookkeeper ledgers with columns for categories of expenditures across the top, invoices listed down the left margin, and the amount of each payment in the cell where its row and column intersect which were traditionally a "spread" across facing pages of a bound ledger (book for keeping accounting records) or on oversized sheets of paper ruled into rows and columns in that format and approximately twice as wide as ordinary paper.

It is widely used by business people, educators, students, and trainers and is among the most prevalent forms of persuasion technology. Beginning with Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft revised branding to emphasize PowerPoint's identity as a component within the Office suite: Microsoft began calling it Microsoft Office PowerPoint instead of merely Microsoft PowerPoint. The current version of Microsoft Office PowerPoint is Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. As a part of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office PowerPoint has become the world's most widely used presentation program.

Bookkeeping (also book-keeping or book keeping) is the recording of all financial transactions undertaken by an individual or organisation.  Bookkeeping is "keeping records of what is bought, sold, owed, and owned; what money comes in, what goes out, and what is left."  A financial transaction is any event that involves money.

A promotional plan can have a wide range of objectives, including: sales increases, new product acceptance, creation of brand equity, positioning,, competitive retaliations, or creation of a corporate image.