Top word processor skills needed to get the job.

What are the top 3 traits or skills every word processor must have to excel?

Can you suggest any tips or insights to develop your word processor expertise?

Host said: What are the top 3 traits or skills every word processor must have to excel?

Can you suggest any tips or insights to develop your word processor expertise?

Multi-Task
Customer Service
Attention to Detail

Host said: What are the top 3 traits or skills every word processor must have to excel?

Can you suggest any tips or insights to develop your word processor expertise?

Try knowing the entire Microsoft Office. Specifically, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and in many cases, Visio.

You should also know other non-MS apps like Adobe Acrobat, OCR software, and 3rd party tools, such as Doc-X tools, FileSite, etc.

For the traits, the ones listed above are important. Knowing how your boss thinks, what your clients' needs are, being highly flexible are also important. One person just wants a file brought onto the system for blacklining purposes only. Another wants a complex document fully stripped and reformatted. Knowing what the deadline is and how much attention to quality vs speed that they need are among the customer service skills required.

I'm very shocked and disappointed with "RDP069's comment about white man/woman shouldn't apply for word processor positions. How could you even say that?

I work with a lot of white people in this field and they are just as advanced as minority people. I think the problem with you is from "your experience" working with (some) white people that they're not as advanced. You can't critize all white people. That's just not fair.

I think what RDP069 is saying is that many of the positions in New York City go to blacks and Hispanics (and there are not a lot of positions available to start with). I have seen that myself, but I'm white and working in the field, so there ARE exceptions.