When I was a Unix n00b, one of the things that really impressed me was the format of the Bell Labs technical memoranda. I especially liked the cover sheet, which captured all the vital information. It was, of course, generated by a set of Troff macros,
These days, most companies that have a standardized format for such things probably implement it as a Word style sheet. If you share Irreal’s sensibilities, that’s horrifying but, as usual, Emacs comes to the rescue.
Matthias David has an excellent package that uses Org mode to do the same thing for meeting notes. If you’re tasked with taking notes during meetings or if you’re, say, the secretary of some club or organization, this package produces excellent looking reports from Org source. You specify some headings that have the required information, write the report, and Org exports it as a beautifully formatted report.
Follow the link to see an example of the final result and the header options that control it. You can even include a PNG of a logo. It is, except for the subject matter, an exact analog to the Bell Lab’s technical memo. An interesting, if easy, project would be to adopt it to technical memoranda. If you don’t already have a company standard for technical memoranda, you should implement this immediately before you end up stuck with a Word style sheet.