atw: Re: Australian Standards for Letters

I agree with Caz, except I would have thought it was more like three decades
as a minimum. The rules you describe were the kind of thing I was taught
growing up in the fifties and sixties. I had to unlearn them long ago and
don't recall when I last received a business letter set out that way.

Howard

2008/10/24 Caz. H <cazhart@xxxxxxxxx>

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Christine
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> Style Manual, published by Wiley. It is the Australian version. It has
>> what you need in it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards;
>>
>> Warren
>>
>>
>>
>> *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
>>
>>
>>
>> Guys
>>
>>
>>
>> Question 1 - Does anyone know where I can find Australian Standards for
>> the layout and presentation of letters (correspondence).
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Question 2 - Does anyone know of ANY business environment or context in
>> which these standards are still applied?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Christine
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Carolyn Hart
>

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