If you had business or personalized stationary, it would be centered at the top or you can index it to the left.

This link has a lot of business letter headers-

[Link: google.com]

A lot of flyers and brochures have the contact info at the bottom of the last page.

There is no THE proper way. If there were, you could not possibly be confused. You'd have seen it in enough places to know how to conform.


Not to worry. We also need to know how to write such things to clients, vendors, divorce attorneys....

However, exactly, you prefer to headline it, this:

I chose this exact style in 1990 after seeing my superhip ad layout guru adopt 888.555.5555 as his method. I hate that.
888-555-5555 looks antique to me, but that's how you have to type a phone number into google to ensure that only one phone number is looked up.

You could also write:Voice: 888 555-5555
People will understand that it's a phone number!



That won't work with all fonts, though, and most people write email instead of e-mail. I'd say give up on trying to align them.

Fins, as you can see from all the responses, there are many valid ways to do this, and you found out by looking that no phone numbers at all were the prior state of the art. I'm sure it doesn't matter a lot. Just pick something you can use with ALL your forms of communication, and ALWAYS do that.

One thing I know for sure, the popular or common method doesn't equal the proper method. So Ernie, I expected better from you regarding your closing.

Fins,
The popular or common method doesn't NECESSARILY equal the proper method. People have been misled by the way you wrote that. What you said is that one must always avoid the popular or common method. That's just not true.

In high school I had teachers who insisted that there was only one correct way to do each particular thing in English, though one said that mature writers who know the rules can break the rules because they know what they're doing and why they're doing it. We students just couldn't break the rules.

From there I went to a degree in Linguistics, where the first and universal lesson is that there absolutely IS NOT one "THE" correct way to do things in language. Language constantly evolves, and the way language is applied constantly evolves. How business letters are written is a part of language.

Here's an article in which a person who does syntax training tells of her experience trying to work out the same thing: [Link: businesswritingblog.com].

edit: dumb spelling error corrected

Most people outside of the communications/CI industries don't refer to a phone number as 'Voice' and they don't usually refer to IP networks as 'Data'. call it what it is- 'Phone'. People understand that.