atw: Re: Australian Standards for Letters

Wow - you have a worthy battle there Christine.

It's been more than a decade since business used that old standard.  I'm
even talking the public sector!

All left aligned, none of those superfluous comas.  Gives me the shivers to
think there are teachers who believe otherwise.

On template letterhead business paper, the logo will most often be
positioned in the top right hand corner (a visual prompt, also doesn't get
hidden by a clip or a staple), possibly including, but not always, the
company contact details.  It's becoming more common for company contact
details to be placed in a footer, with the information flowing
horizontally.  Apart from the aesthetics of page layout, this better
accommodates the addition of URLs, email address, postal and street address.


CH



On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Christine Kent <
christine_kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Just dug out my old AGPS manual – think that's the one you are referring
> to.
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> It's not the one the teachers are using – it has a few suggestions but is
> not prescriptive.  These teachers are insisting on the old standards we had
> as kids – our address to the top right, date under that, their address under
> that, left aligned, mandatory Yours faithfully, and lots of commas – all
> seems pretty anal retentive to me, but I need to find the actual document
> that specifies this if I am going to argue with it.
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> Christine
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> *From:* austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Warren Lewington
> *Sent:* Thursday, 23 October 2008 11:08 PM
> *To:* austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* atw: Re: Australian Standards for Letters
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> Style Manual, published by Wiley. It is the Australian version. It has what
> you need in it.
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> Regards;
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> Warren
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> *From:* austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Christine Kent
> *Sent:* Thursday, 23 October 2008 09:29
> *To:* austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* atw: Australian Standards for Letters
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>
> Guys
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> Question 1 - Does anyone know where I can find Australian Standards for the
> layout and presentation of letters (correspondence).
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> We are writing books on how to use Word 2007 but our TAFE teachers are
> throwing wobblies because we are using the Microsoft templates which do not
> concur with Australian standards.  We may be forced to produce our own
> boilerplate template which does concur with those standards.
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> Question 2 - Does anyone know of ANY business environment or context in
> which these standards are still applied?
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> Regards
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> Christine
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Carolyn Hart

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