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  Letters: Memos

TO: Alison Paige
Marketing Department
FROM: Maria Rodriguez
Personnel Department
DATE: November 21, 19--
SUBJECT: Format for Interoffice Memorandums on Plain Paper
           Leave top and side margins of at least one inch when
typing memorandums on plain paper. Align all guide words at the
left margin. For easier typing, use a ten space tab stop to
align the fill-in data.

           Leave two or three blank lines after the subject line.
Indent all paragraphs of the message by ten spaces or use the
blocked paragraph style illustrated in the printed memorandum
facsimile.

           Type the writer's initials two spaces beneath the last
line of the last paragraph and position them slightly to the
right of dead center.

  M.R.

 
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cc Wesley Torrence
    Annette Roberts

 
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