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Part Four of Spring Cleaning for the Office

This is the last in a four-part series of tips for office spring cleaning.

Fourth, check your active files. These are files that remain on the desktop and are checked every day. They could be named: Take Action, To File, To Read, Email, etc. Have you forgotten to complete a task in one of the folders? Do you need to check with someone else in the office for something? Try to have only the papers that you need in the folders. Everything else should be eliminated. Active files shouldn't accumulate lots of papers.

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