Open AccessThis article proposes to study the path of the archive science in the secretarial profession, making reference since the first ways to archive until the electronic ways of archiving. The main theory references used for this study were the books “Arquivo: teoria e prática”, from Paes (2002), “Secretariado: do escriba ao web writer”, from Sabino and Rocha (2004), and Paula (1995), “Como elaborar a tabela de temporalidade documental: racionalização de custos de armazenagem e administração de arquivos empresariais”, that show, beyond the basic archiving techniques, the new and modern techniques at the archives service. This study can be classified as exploratory, due to the bibliographic source of this research. From the results found, it was highlighted that a well organized archive offers agility and practicality to the secretarial professional – important conditions to support the decision process – the improvement of the layout of an office through the destination of the documents produced, is also basically relevant. With the Documents Temporality Table put on practice, it is possible to implement the Electronic Documents Management and constantly improve the archiving proccess.