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Comments by Bertram

I refurbished the layout for A4 paper and window envelopes, referencing the text boxes and fold marks to the page margins as they should be;

Indicate new paragraphs within body text by indenting the first line, this can be done either by tabbing or by automatic indenting; the depth of indentation should be an em dash. Both have advantages and disadvantages. For mixed text structure, i.e. blank lines, bulleted lists, etc. in a document, I think automatic indentation is problematic, it never looks the way the author wants it to.

A few layout hints:

Please use only one uniform font style (Roboto is the New MPG standard) for each letter: Arial and TimesNewRoman do not look good. In general, sans-serif fonts are preferable for (relatively short) letters.

Underlining should be avoided, used only in emergencies; instead: Italics, bold, CAPITALS; avoid color highlighting, it will be erased during copying.

The date belongs above the subject (2 spaces to the subject); always abbreviate the month with three letters, otherwise there will be confusion with the American spelling;

When copying & pasting text structures: Only use Paste -> [Paste Special] -> Unformatted Text; only then apply formatting if necessary;

After a blank line, no indentation of the next line is necessary.

Date should not be set automatically, then when printing a week later no one knows which date is correct;

A subject line should always be used, if necessary highlighted in bold.

Maximum 5 marking points below each other, then it becomes confusing;

Starting from second page there are now clean page numbers.