Guidelines for Business Letters

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Guidelines for Business Letters
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Personal Business Letter(Block Style)

• Basic Parts
• Return Address
• Date
• Letter Address
• Salutation
• Body
• Complimentary Close
• Name of Writer

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Personal Business Letter

• Margins
• 1 side margins
• 2 top margin or may be centered vertically with
  Center Page feature
• 1 bottom margin

• Special Parts
• Reference Initials
• Attachments
• Enclosure notation(s)

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Formal Business Letter(Modified Block Style)

• Basic Parts
• Letterhead
• Date
• Letter Address
• Salutation
• Body
• Complimentary Close
• Name of Writer

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Business Letter Special Parts

• mailing notations (certified, registered, special
  delivery, confidential, personal)
• attention line
• subject line
• copy notation
• postscript

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Second-Page Headings

• Single Line Heading
• Multiple-Line Heading