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| Thread ID: 63277 | 2005-11-04 02:12:00 | Letters done in Word | bruciebear (1478) | Press F1 |
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| 401776 | 2005-11-04 02:12:00 | Silly question, what is the accepted ( correct ) and normal margins, top, left, bottom,right, for an a4 page when compiling an official business letter ? What font size would be considered correct 12 or 14 ? Or does nobody really care. Thanks. :confused: | bruciebear (1478) | ||
| 401777 | 2005-11-04 02:31:00 | I've just always used the default settings . . . I had classes on this many years ago in a real school . . . and with the current degradation in manners . . . both official/formal and social/friendly make it seem almost silly to expect any sort of form-police out there who would even know a dangling participle from a gerund to a misplaced colon . It seems that the world of class and structure is going to hell in a handbasket and nobody seems to care or see . . . exceptions of course, exist . Bruciebear, you and I are probably the only ones left in that catagory . . . er . . . present F1'ers excepted of course! :blush: As I said a few lines ago . . I don't think it makes a twit to anyone anymore as to the effect of fonts and points and indentation . Some bimb-ette is gonna be the first to open the letter and if there's a poorly formatted letter enclosed, she won't know the difference anyway . . . . . . . . now . . if you ask me about how to correctly fold the letter before placing it in the envelope . . and you get another lecture! :nerd: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 401778 | 2005-11-04 02:37:00 | For the amount of attention given to letters by some companies which have call centres to isolate/alienate them completely from their customers, you might as well use the Dingbats font. In 72 point. :mad: :groan: :thumbs: :rolleyes: |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 401779 | 2005-11-04 02:38:00 | I'll stick my neck out here and say that 14 is probably too large for a font size, though it depends which font you use, I suppose. I tend to stick to Arial s11 for printed letters. | pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 401780 | 2005-11-04 02:48:00 | Hi Brucie*. If you have a recent version of Word have a look at File > New > Templates > On my computer. Will give you several choices or samples in template form. Microsoft have stacks of templates for all purposes through their help facilities. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 401781 | 2005-11-04 02:57:00 | I think presentation is very important for business letters, especially if they are going to be read by someone you are trying to impress/influence in your favour . As far as "correct" margins and fonts it depends on how much drivel you have to write . If it is only a couple of paragraphs of few lines then the margins will need to be wider in order to place the text more attractively on the page . Left, right and bottom margins should be 3cm and the top 3 or 4cm depending on how it looks in Preview . If you have a lot of text then the margins can be narrower but no less than 2cm all around . If it is a lengthy manuscript do make sure you use plenty of "white space", ie break the paragraphs up into smaller chunks for easier reading . For fonts, I usually stick to Times New Roman size 12 or Arial size 10 . |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 401782 | 2005-11-04 02:59:00 | Love ya!~ Graham! | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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