In most cases, business letters follow a block style letter format, which means that all text is justified to the left of the page. The letter is single spaced, with double spaces between paragraphs.

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The default document settings in Word 2010 create documents with the necessary margins and justification, but you have to do a bit more formatting to create a document with full block configuration.