The last line of the heading the date line and the last line of the inside address the names of the city and state are followed by periods, while all preceding lines of the heading and the inside address are followed by commas. The last line of the signature is also followed by a period, while all the preceding lines except the pen-written signature are followed by commas. No punctuation mark follows the pen-written signature. The term signature applies to the entire signature unit, which usually consists of several lines. The colon following the salutation and the comma following the complimentary close are preferably retained even with the open form. CLOSED PUNCTUATION FORMAT
OPEN PUNCTUATION FORMAT
LETTER STYLES
1. Indented Styles 2. Double-spaced indented style 3. Purely block letter style 4. Block Letter style 5. Semi-block letter style 6. Hanging Paragraph letter style