atw: Re: Australian Standards for Letters

Christine,
The old format for letters you describe reminds me of when I attended typing
classes at Sydney Tech College in 1983.

We used a book that was probably foolscap size, and bound across the top so
we could stand it beside our typewriters and flip the pages up and over.
It had a few letter layouts that were described in great detail.

The title was something like "learn to touch type in two tedious terms".

Bob T

2008/10/24 Christine Kent <christine_kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  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;
>
> 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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