Cover Letter Template Pack for Word, Four Situations, Job Change and Referral

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Four separate cover letters, each written for one situation. They are four different letters, with different openings and different closing lines.

First-Job: says plainly that you have no paid experience in the field, then points to a class, club or volunteer role.

Job-Change: gives your years in your current job, one plain reason for moving, your notice period, and asks the reader to contact you outside work.

Referral: opens with the person who suggested you, how you know them and the problem they mentioned. It closes by saying they know you are applying.

Return-to-Work: names the dates of your break, lets you say as little as you like about why, and covers what you did to keep up.

Across the four letters there are 114 prompts in square brackets. The Sample Preview PDF shows all four filled in for a made-up applicant.

WHAT'S INCLUDED
- Cover-Letters-Templates-Letter.zip and Cover-Letters-Templates-A4.zip, each with the four letters as separate .docx files
- Cover-Letters-Sample-Preview-Letter.pdf and Cover-Letters-Sample-Preview-A4.pdf, 4 pages, the letters filled in for a made-up person
- Start-Here-Samples-Fonts.zip: Start Here PDF, each filled sample as .docx in both sizes, the Noto Serif font files and their license

Each letter is 1 page. Digital download. Nothing is shipped.

COMPATIBILITY
A .docx file with ordinary text, heading styles and one column. No tables, text boxes, macros or add-ins. Scripts opened it in LibreOffice 26.8 and read the text with docx2txt, macOS textutil and, after a PDF export, pdftotext. With its font swapped for Liberation Sans or Liberation Serif in LibreOffice, each document stayed on one page. A script also opened this file in Microsoft Word for Mac 16.114.3 and exported a PDF: it stayed on one page and the words came out in the same order as the file. Word used Calibri, Arial or Noto depending on the file and what it could fetch, and no fonts were installed for the test. That test did not type longer text. Google Docs and Pages have not been tried, no ATS was tested, and the menu steps below have not been tried in Word, Google Docs or Pages.

QUESTIONS AND HOW-TO
Do I have to explain my break? No. The Return-to-Work letter asks for the reason in as few words as you are comfortable sharing.

Can I use the Referral letter without asking the person? Ask first. The last paragraph says they know you are applying and will speak about your work.

Is there a matching resume? Not in this listing. The letters stand alone.

Why does the sample still show [email address]? So the sample holds no real address. Everything else on it is made up.

Editing this file in Word or Google Docs

In Word: open the .docx file. If a yellow bar says Protected View, click Enable Editing. Select the text in [square brackets], brackets included, then type over it.

In Google Docs: open Google Drive, click New > File upload and pick the .docx file. Right-click it in Drive and choose Open with > Google Docs.

To get a file back out of Docs, use File > Download and choose Microsoft Word or PDF.

Line breaks can move between the two apps. Check the page count before you save a final copy.

If a font looks different, the app has swapped in another one. The layout still works.

A4 or US Letter

US Letter is 8.5 x 11 inches (216 x 279 mm). It is the usual paper in the United States and Canada.

A4 is 210 x 297 mm (8.3 x 11.7 inches). It is the usual paper in most other countries.

The paper size is in each file name. Print the one that matches the paper in your printer.

If you only have the other size, use Fit or Scale to Fit in the print window. The page will come out slightly smaller, with wider margins.

HOW AI WAS USED
AI helped write the listing text, the how-to text, the prompts, the made-up sample entries and the code that builds this file. Scripts tested: the file structure (one column, no tables or text boxes, real heading styles), the reading order as text through docx2txt, textutil and pdftotext, the page count in LibreOffice, the page count with the font swapped, and the metadata. No person is claimed to have checked it unless stated here.

PLEASE NOTE
These are letter layouts with writing prompts. They give no career advice and cannot promise an interview or a job. The sample person, employers and numbers are made up. License: for your personal use only. No resale or sharing of this file.