These seventeen individualized learning activities packets (LAPs) are intended to relate essential competencies needed for entry or advancement in office occupations to the secondary level office education program and to assist students in achieving occupational proficiency in business careers. Each LAP contains some or all of the following materials: (1) LAP structure and use, including organization, objectives, procedure, terminology; (2) pre-assessment; (3) learning activities with necessary explanations, instructions, handouts; (4) work-sheets; (5) self evaluation; (6) post-assessment; (7) answer keys; and (8) references. Notes to the learning manager accompanying each LAP suggest appropiate grade levels and courses/classes and special material needed and provide supplemental information. These LAPs are provided: Balance Sheet; Calculating Interest; Income Statement; Letter of Application; Letter Mechanics; OCA (Opening a Checking Account); Pay Early--Save Cash--Calculating Cash Discount and Net Cash Price; Price, Sushi, and the Sushi Eaters; Proofreading for Mailability; Reinforcing Shorthand Theory for Chapter 1 (Greff Diamond Jubilee Series); Reprographics: The Fluid Duplicator; Resume--A Necessity; RWC (Record and Write Checks); The Connecting Semicolon and The Announcing Colon; The Indispensable Comma; The Stencil Duplicator; and Typing a Topic Outline. (YLB)