 So one of the things that we can do with Microsoft Word is we can create something called a block style business letter Now I know that sounds boring and very you know But think about all of the mail you get, you know, do you check your mail every day you should? But just something like your bill, you know time-worn cable We all probably have it or Comcast or something, you know If you're still one of those people who get their bills mailed to them they're actually using a block style business letter when they write that out and We can even write our own little block style business letter. So let's take a look at that. Well first I'm going to change my view just so you can see it's a little tiny if you can kind of eye this So I click on my view tab and inside here. You can see I can turn on a few things I can actually change whether or not I have a ruler or Or some grid lines if I want I mean look at that for alignment issues or I can zoom into page width This is one of the things that I typically do With my face to face glasses so people can see what I'm writing You know from the projector. So we start off every block style business letter with the inside Oh, we start with the date. Sorry. We start with the date and I'm gonna actually start typing in feb root Feb are notice what happens here all of a sudden. I've got this February press enter to insert one of what happens when I hit enter What we've just seen is something known as auto complete this auto complete function that Microsoft word has in it Allows me to not have to type everything for example. I want to go ahead and put in today's date Well, if I just hit space Look what pops up didn't even have to look at the screen You can see that is actually going to give me February 9th, 2015 press enter to insert So suddenly, you know, I don't have to type as much. Maybe I don't want to look at the date Maybe I'm in the zone and I don't look down at the little clock That's currently behind my cursor. So you can't see what today's date is that that's where that stuff can Then we do something called double spacing now if I just hit enter once that's a single space If I hit enter twice, that's a double space And now we go ahead and we put in the inside address. So we're talking about for example my bill so I'm the recipient of this and I reside at 4500 blue clay road the North Campus address in Castle Hey, North Carolina, you know, what's with the zip code? I don't really know it off the top of my head. It's two eight four two nine So I've now made my Inside address go ahead and double space again and since again, we're Time Warner We're we're designing this out so that they can send me the bill we say Dear Adam we start with this Salutation just a dear hello, you know, if you check your emails if you've emailed me back and forth I'll typically do the same thing. I'll say hi your name and instead of colon I'll actually put a comma really doesn't matter which one you go with I like the comma because I Was taught that way But then we do another double space and so we begin Writing our bill so in closed is your bill for From Jan ooh look at that auto-complete from Jan you werey 2015 this bill must be paid in full by the next Bill deadline, I'm not really good at writing these things as you can tell bill deadline which will be February luckily February I don't know 23rd 2015 failure to pay the outstanding balance on your account will Result in a five percent late fee being applied To your account, okay, why have I spent so much time? explicitly writing all of this stuff one thing I want you to take note of is inside my home tab We've got this crazy little symbol right here this guy Well, this is known as my show hide that symbol Which is the paragraph symbol if I click on it notice what happens every time I've hit enter I've actually told word that that's the beginning of a new paragraph That actually matters because if we think about the computer for a second It doesn't know what this you know, it doesn't know what inner means the computer doesn't care I remember this thing right here. This is for us. So when I hit enter the compete You know what we're doing is we're actually saying Go to a another line and we have to somehow store that in the computer So we actually use it's kind of a command. It's called the new line Command, and this is the same thing we see when we say hit tab that Space you see there that has to be stored in some way even though we're not seeing the text if I turn this off Even though we're not seeing anything. These are known as non printing characters non printing characters So something just kind of keeping the back of your head as we work a little bit now once I finished my block style business letter And I know it's very basic, but we go ahead and write out our What is this the Complementary closing, you know if you again read some of my emails that I respond back to you I say bests or bests of luck, or I hope that helps all I'm doing is just giving that kind of pleasant little our Conversation has ended go forth and prosper Same kind of things going on here, you know, we're sending out a bill just a little notice hurry up and pay it Otherwise, you know, I send people with brass knuckles to your doorstep and that sucks. So We'll start with just sincerely. Oh, sincerely comma again Now we're actually gonna do what's known as a quadruple space one two three four quadruple spacing is you hit enter four times But it's because the idea is I would print this out and sign it You know, I'd grab one of these guys. It's called a pen ladies and gentlemen. We use these, you know, not just They're not just from museums But I would sign this to show authenticity and the reason why is because I could put anyone's name here sincerely Bill Gates, you know Bill Gates is sending me a bill Okay, Bill Gates. Well, right underneath Bill Gates's name. I'm gonna go ahead and say I need to give him his Title, you know, I would probably want to know who it is because what if it's not Bill Gates? What if his name is John Claude Eisenhower Eisenhower Weird name. I don't know who John Claude Eisenhower is it seems Poorly named person. So who are you? Well, John Claude Eisenhower is the accounts Manager, oh, he's an account manager. That's what that makes perfect sense. Now. That's why he's sending me this bill We'll go ahead and hit enter twice and I'm gonna put in enclosure Justice indicate that there is something in close here. Now one of the things your book talks about is we also throw in something like these guys these guys Those are known as typist initials from way back in the olden times when Rich people were so rich that they didn't even bother using their own computer and they had their receptionists type out their own letters. Well, guess what? This is the future everyone has hoverboards Type your own letters. So We take this and we've written it out now. I'm gonna go ahead and say alright looks pretty nice Good work everybody. So I want to save this I've got the little floppy diskette up here again from the olden times of how we saved files Or I can go into file and I have two options save or save as I like to do save as it's a Just kind of rule of thumb on my behalf I like to say save as because it gives me that control of what I'm looking for save You know the beginning doesn't do much difference, but save as They you see they do the same thing Typically I want to save to my computer So I would click on my computer and you can see I get all these recent folders I've been dealing with or I can select browse Now browse is gonna let me see sort of the internals of my computer and I can look around Now one of the things I like to do is I like to save to my desktop initially because that gives me that ability to Have ready access to it. So we'll go ahead and say We'll call this the bill and you know, I don't even need that docx. I can just call this bill and Word will actually put that in there. See that doc docx Save let's go ahead and close that a word Close under my email so you don't see that and look at that right there that guy Bill since I saved it to my desktop. There it is Now what would I do after I'm done with it? Well in my case what I would do is I would Come over here and I would put it in my documents after I'm done with it The reason why where you there you are Reason why is because I don't want to clutter up my desktop I mean look how much free space. I have readily available. I like that I'm a I'm a stickler for it. So I like to have a clean desktop Some little things to do