Microsoft Word 2007 Business Letter Tutorial.mp4

I demonstrate how to correctly type and format a business letter using Microsoft Word 2007. It should be noted that if you use a different version of Microsoft word or if you use a Mac or Linux based computer the interface and steps will vary.

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hello today i'm going to show you how to
type a basic business letter using
Microsoft Word first open up Microsoft
Word just off this is microsoft word
2007 here
I want to familiarize yourself with
several the tabs that are located in the
screen home has a lot of your font
information and changing insert where
you can insert pictures text boxes some
word art page layout your margins
orientation
sighs and columns and the only other tab
we really need to be concerned with is
the view tab where you can change your
view select ruler and then and the such
the review tab does go over a couple of
things like spelling and the source if
you do need that which is quite handy
click back to the Home tab first thing
we're going to do is type our address in
the top left so make sure your cursor is
in a far-left top row
I held the shift key and hit enter and
that allowed me to go directly below
without skipping a line , after the city
and then i'm going to enter twice now
i'm going to type in the recipient's
address
comma after the city you can type the
full state or abbreviate it just making
up a zip code you can type the phone
number here to again made up phone
number
enter twice more now you're going to
type your salutation , and I've already
copied something from a previous letter
so I'm just going to paste that in there
now what you can do if you notice all
the paragraph start there are left
aligned and there's one space in between
one line in between each paragraph
it's recommended each paragraph b three
on two to three sentences long minimum
now you notice the font is different
here so we want to make sure all the fun
is the same so I'm just going to
highlight everything
select the font I want to use you want
to make sure to choose a readable 1 i'll
select from Andhra fine and i recommend
this size of at least 11 to 12
in our case we might want to make it 12
to 14 because it's a smaller fun
typically no larger than 12 unless the
fine is extremely small
now after the letter is done i'm going
to enter
enter again I'm going to tab over until
at the three right here on the ruler
type in your Otto's auto correct on the
spelling
type in your closing and I left the
space so I can leave room to officially
sign it and again you want to type your
name as well
and there you have it
we did forget the day I apologize we
have to add the date just right up top
today's date right in between your
address and the recipients address
today's may and you see that the day
automatically comes up
press ENTER and the date is added for
you and you want to make sure you save
press the back button in the top left
save
for our case at school we want to make
sure that you are on your H Drive select
H Drive and I already have a computer
literacy folder so i just want to select
that and make sure you type business
letter and your name and then you can
click Save and that's not a type of
business letter i'll be having more
tutorials as we go out through the year
if you have any requests please let me
know