Purpose What is the purpose
of your document? To inform customers that our office will be closed on specific dates for summer holidays
Purpose What is the purpose of your document?
To inform customers that our oFce will be closed on speci±c dates for summer holidays
Format
What kind of document? Email? Letter? Memo?
Before emails demanded everyone’s attention, people communicated internally through a medium called the interoffice memorandum—the memo. We typed and printed it, signed or initialed it, and distributed it through interoffice mail to people who read it to make decisions, take action, or have essential information.
A memorandum may be used to make a request, announce an upcoming meeting, or communicate some important facts. Download the memo template below, or continue reading for some tips about how to write a memo and to see the sample memo format
We created the memorandum template and sample memo letter as .DOCX files for Word 2007+ so that you can easily modify the theme and styles. To change the theme, you can go to Page Layout > Themes to pick a different set of fonts for the entire document. For more information about themes and styles, you can look up those topics via the help system (F1).
Email is easy and is great for informal communication - reminders about lunch parties or missing cell phones. For more formal or official communication, use a memo format
Say what you need to say in the most concise and clear way possible. That isn't always easy, but everybody will appreciate not having to read a long memo.